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WHO WE ARE
CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH DELIVERING GLOBAL IMPACT
The RVC is a world-leader in the education and training of veterinary medicine, veterinary nursing, and biological science students. The RVC is the top ranked veterinary school in the world (QS World Rankings by Subject 2019) achieving perfect scores for academic staff and research impact, and received
a TEF Gold Award in 2017 for the quality of its teaching. The RVC is also ranked first in the UK,
by its students, for providing the best quality courses.
Alongside teaching and learning, the RVC is at the forefront of veterinary research, and is driving important advances in veterinary epidemiology, disease control, the comparative aspects of evolution, physiology and genomics, informing advances in veterinary and human medicine, leading to improved health and welfare. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework Exercise, nearly 80 percent of our research was rated world-leading or internationally excellent, making the RVC the leading veterinary-focused organisation in the country.
The RVC is also home to Europe’s largest small animal referral teaching hospital, one of the UK’s leading equine hospitals, a rapidly expanding specialist
exotics service and two first opinion companion animal practices. All of the RVC’s clinical
services have recently been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Practice Standards Scheme.
