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Animal Sciences: Pre-Veterinary Medicine Concentration, BS

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About the Program

Animal sciences offers a sound education in science and prepares students for scientific careers in animal agriculture. Biotechnological industries seek animal science graduates, frequently offering unprecedented opportunities. In addition, students are prepared for graduate study in specialized fields of animal genetics, nutrition, physiology, food science, or management. Students interested in continuing to a professional school, such as dentistry, medicine, or veterinary medicine, find this program to provide excellent preparation.

Concentrations include:

  • Animal Agribusiness
  • Behavior/Wellbeing
  • Biosciences
  • Preveterinary Medicine
  • Production
  • Products

Animal Sciences (multiple concentrations) Website

Summary of Program Requirements

The Summary of Program Requirements for Animal Sciences-Pre-Veterinary Medicine  is a comprehensive list of those categories which a student must fulfill in order to earn their degree. Unlike the full Detailed Program Requirements listed below, complete lists of selectives for any given category are not shown. These summaries are intended to be printer-friendly and less expansive in detail.

Detailed Program Requirements

Please see below for detailed program requirements and possible selective fulfillments.

120 credits required for graduation

Departmental/Program Major Courses (117 credits)

Required Major Courses (12 credits)

ANSC Restricted Selectives (21 credits)

(see ANSC Undergraduate Student Handbook)

  • Animal Genetics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 - 4.00
  • Animal Nutrition Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Animal Physiology Selective - Credit Hours: 2.00 - 3.00
  • Animal Production/Management selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Animal Products Selective - Credit Hours: 2.00 - 4.00
  • Animal Sciences Selectives - Credit Hours: 4.00 - 8.00

Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (84 credits)

(see ANSC Undergraduate Student Handbook)

Electives (3 credits)

  • Elective: Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements

  • Human Cultures Humanities
  • Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
  • Information Literacy
  • Science #1
  • Science #2
  • Science, Technology, and Society
  • Written Communication
  • Oral Communication
  • Quantitative Reasoning

120 semester credits required for Bachelor of Science degree

2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

  • 2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree
  • 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
  • 9 credits International Understanding
  • 3 credits Multicultural Awareness
  • 9 credits of Hum and/or Social Sciences outside the College of Agriculture

Program Requirements

https://ag.purdue.edu/oap/Pages/major.aspx

Fall 1st Year

15 Credits

Spring 1st Year

16 Credits

Fall 2nd Year

16 Credits

Spring 2nd Year

15 Credits

Fall 3rd Year

16 Credits

Spring 3rd Year

14 Credits

Fall 4th Year

14 Credits

Spring 4th Year

  • Animal Nutrition Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Animal Products Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Animal Sciences Selective - Credit Hours: 2.00
  • Humanities or Social Science Selective (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Written or Oral Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

14 Credits

Note

120 semester credits required for Bachelor of Science degree.

2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.

Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.

Official and complete prerequisite lists are in the course catalog; the incomplete listing presented here regards this program and course sequencing.

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical. A Critical Course is one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.

Expired Course

Any course without a link to its description is one that has been expired.  However, this course could fulfill the degree requirement historically.

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program.  For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor:

American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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