UK - School of Veterinary Science, Liverpool
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[School of Veterinary Science, Liverpool]
About Us
Liverpool Vet School was the first vet school to be part of a university. It began in the early 1900s with William Owen Williams, who transferred his veterinary institution to Liverpool from Edinburgh. Veterinary science was particularly relevant to Liverpool at this time, due to its use of horses at the dockside and throughout the city. The surrounding countryside was also set to benefit given the large amount of cattle.
Education
The school offers the following undergraduate courses: Bioveterinary Science (BSc), Veterinary Science (BVSc) and Veterinary Science with an Intercalated Honours Year. With in-depth training from world-leading experts and practical experience in both the first opinion practices and referral hospitals, this innovative approach to veterinary education has been producing top quality veterinary practitioners for many years. From September 2012 we will begin to see the results of the recent £10 million investment in the vet school. This involves a new “Vet School Home”, state of the art “Veterinary Teaching Suite” and associated first opinion small animal practice. Liverpool operates three main teaching hospitals; the Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital, the Small Animal Teaching Hospital and the Farm Animal Unit. These are all located at the vet school’s field station at Leahurst, established in 1941 and the first of its kind in the UK. Leahurst is now the base for almost all the clinical teaching and also hosts a wide variety of research facilities. Uniquely, we are also the only university with two on-site farms to support teaching and research.
Number of first year students
171 Year One undergraduates in 2013
UK league tables
Ranked 2nd in the Guardian University Guide 2014
National Student Survey
95% of our students were satisfied overall with their course in the National Student Survey 2013
Current Research
The School of Veterinary Science has one of the widest-ranging research programmes in the UK, covering both fundamental and clinical research, and this is currently divided into eight flexible research groups employing over 70 academic staff. The research groups are integral members of the internationally renowned Health and Life Sciences community, which is based at the University of Liverpool. This opens up countless opportunities for researchers to pursue novel projects in collaboration with an array of specialist centres, including those for Infection and Global Health, Ageing and Chronic Disease, Integrative Biology, and Translational Medicine. Much of the work is not only interdisciplinary but cross-species as well. Liverpool is, for example, pre-eminent in combined human and animal fields such as zoonosis, microbial resistance to antibiotics, and climate-related epidemiology. Links are also cultivated with the Veterinary School's three first-opinion practices, and the two referral hospitals, giving researchers unparalleled access to their facilities, and data. The Veterinary School's external funding is continually growing, with income from research councils, industry and leading charitable foundations, as well as from the growing business and knowledge exchange services.