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INSTITUTION DURATION UCAS CODE CAMPUS
(WITH PLACEMENT
YEAR)
MSci BIOVETERINARY SCIENCES

The MSci in Bioveterinary Sciences is an The fourth year comprises an extensive, in-depth research
undergraduate integrated master’s degree, project, together with training in advanced research methods.
the aim of which is to prepare you for a PhD This will build on your knowledge gained from your first three
years and develop your scientific and transferable skills further,
or a career in an academic or industrial making you ‘work ready’ and able to realise your full potential
research environment, for example within the as soon as you embark on your chosen career path after
biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries, graduating from the course.
and for other biological, biomedicine and
veterinary-related careers. The course will deliver the knowledge of animal health and
disease, where you will gain a better understanding of current
fundamental research and related questions in bioveterinary
COURSE OVERVIEW sciences. You will be exposed to cutting-edge fields of
research in comparative physiology and medicine, livestock
This programme focuses on developing your knowledge, production and health, and animal welfare science and ethics.
analytical skills and practical skills. Modules are structured The course is particularly suitable for those considering a
across the first three years of the course to build a broad career in research.
base of knowledge, whilst also allowing the opportunity to
specialise through optional module selections and research
projects in your second and third year.

YEAR COMPULSORY MODULES YEAR • Research skills
• Research project (30 credits) • Extended

OPTIONAL MODULES • Critical literature review research project
• Advanced concepts (30 credits) 4 (105 credits)
in bio-business (co-requisite 30 credit
research project)
• Advanced concepts
3 in reproduction • Development and disease
• Ecology: individuals,
• Applied molecular microbiology populations and communities
• Applied wildlife health science
• Endocrine and
• Advanced skeletal pathobiology metabolic syndromes
• Animal behaviour and cognition • Epidemiology: the bigger picture
• Applied animal welfare • Infection and immunity (30 credits)
• Comparative animal • Parasitology of human and
locomotion (30 credits) veterinary tropical diseases
• Comparative models of disease • Practical investigative biology
• Comparative anatomy • Science of animal welfare

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