University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences


The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences is a faculty of the University of Melbourne. The faculty is a medium for undergraduate education and academic research into economically important fields related to agriculture and veterinary science, such as agronomy, biosecurity, environment, food security, food science, parasitology, pest control, veterinary virology, zoonotic diseases, etc.

Organisation

The faculty is structured as follows:
The Melbourne School of Land and Environment was disestablished on 1January 2015. Its agriculture and food systems department moved alongside veterinary science to form the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, while other areas of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty of Science in two new departments.

Facilities

The faculty operates through the following facilities:

Courses

The faculty offers the following courses:
; Agricultural science
; Veterinary science
; Food science
; General studies
The faculty requires all students undertaking at least these courses to be vaccinated for the zoonotic bacterium Coxiella burnetii, the causal agent of Q fever.

Student societies

Two student societies exist to foster cohesion among students in the faculty:
The Academic Ranking of World Universities has produced and annual rank, since 2017, of universities according to subject area in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. The table below summarises the rankings of the University of Melbourne in the subjects of 'Agriculture' and 'Veterinary Sciences', in comparison to all universities and Australian universities only. Since 2018, the University of Melbourne Department of Veterinary Biosciences has ranked second in Australia in Veterinary Sciences, behind the University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science.

SubjectGeographic scope2020 ranking2019 ranking2018 ranking2017 ranking
AgricultureWorld 30 43 4047
AgricultureAustralia 3 5 56
Veterinary SciencesWorld 26 27 3239
Veterinary SciencesAustralia 2 2 23