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INSTITUTION DURATION UCAS CODE CAMPUS
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YEAR)
MSci BIOVETERINARY COURSE OVERVIEW

SCIENCES This programme focuses on developing your knowledge,
analytical skills and practical skills. Modules are structured
across the first three years of the course to build a broad base
of knowledge, whilst also allowing the opportunity to specialise
The MSci in Bioveterinary Sciences is through optional module selections and research projects in
an undergraduate integrated master’s your second and third year.
degree, the aim of which is to prepare The fourth year comprises an extensive, in-depth research
you for a PhD or a career in an academic project, together with training in advanced research methods.
This will build on your knowledge gained from your first three
or industrial research environment, years and develop your scientific and transferable skills further,

for example within the biotechnology making you ‘work ready’ and able to realise your full potential
as soon as you embark on your chosen career path after
or pharmaceutical industries, and graduating from the course.
for other biological, biomedicine and The course will deliver the underpinning knowledge of animal

veterinary-related careers. Our MSci health and disease, where you will gain a better understanding
Bioveterinary Sciences course holds of current fundamental research and related questions in
bioveterinary sciences. You will be exposed to cutting-edge
Advanced Degree Accreditation by the fields of research in comparative physiology and medicine,
Royal Society of Biology, highlighting livestock production and health, and animal welfare science
and ethics. The course is particularly suitable for those
its potential to educate the life science considering a career in research.

leaders and innovators of the future.
WORK PLACEMENTS AND
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS RESEARCH PROJECTS
We welcome applications from students with a wide range of As well as research projects studied throughout your
qualifications. For a complete list of academic qualifications second and third years, the MSci programme’s fourth year
and English Language requirements for this course, please see is dedicated to a large research project. Throughout this
pages 48-49. research experience, you will be challenged by, and stimulated
to challenge, the currently accepted wisdom in bioveterinary
COURSE COSTS sciences. It is important to note that you will be responsible for
developing your hypothesis for your fourth-year project.
UK tuition fees: £9,250*
International tuition fees: £22,670* You will have the option to take a placement year after year two
Placements/sandwich year: £1,850* in a workplace gaining skills and experience relevant to your
degree whilst earning an MSci Bioveterinary Sciences with
* Tuition fees are subject to change. Fees listed are representative of entry in Placement Year. See page 28-29 for more information.
2023 and should be used as a guide only. See page 90 for more information.

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