Appropriate management is essential in order to optimise animal welfare. Ensuring good animal welfare is an increasing concern to all those involved in managing and training animals. However, this needs to be balanced against the demands of production (meat, milk), athletic performance (equine sport, racing) or leisure.

MSc Animal Science courses such as that provided by Aberystwyth University enable students to study animal physiology and its application to nutrition, breeding and animal management. As such post graduates in Animal Science will be ideally placed to ensure that these demands of production and welfare are appropriately balanced through the development and implementation of innovative management practices and dissemination of knowledge and advice to practitioners.

Animal Science post graduates will graduate with the knowledge and skills required to pursue leading careers in animal research, development, academia, training, public and private commercial enterprise, advisory work, government agencies, non-government organizations etc throughout the world.

Several universities offer undergraduate courses in Agricultural science/Livestock science/Animal science but Aberystwyth is one of the very few that offer post graduate opportunities in the field of Animal Science.

Such post graduate courses have proven over the years to provide a valuable and well respected qualification which opens the door for its graduates to pursue a whole host of exciting opportunities; many graduates holding exciting positions, such as: senior positions in University/College lecturing and management, research establishments, commercial companies, advisory positions, consultancy, administrative posts, retail industry, journalism etc within UK, Europe and worldwide. In addition, as with many post graduate qualifications these days, the course will also allow you to pursue a whole host of careers in other related and unrelated disciplines where a post graduate qualification leads to accelerated promotion and greater opportunities.

With thanks to:
Dr Mina C.G. Davies Morel
Deputy Director Post graduate Studies
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS)
Aberystwyth University, Wales, SY23 3AL, UK