Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience (BAnVetBioSc) - Career Paths

As an Animal and Veterinary Bioscience graduate you will be highly employable across a wide range of industries, in agribusiness, government, research, biomedical science, development, management and teaching. Animal scientists can work with a wide range of animals from production animals, both in Australia and overseas, to domestic animals and wildlife.

Animal scientists have proven to be highly employable across a broad range of disciplines, for example:

• animal biosecurity and quarantine (eg AQIS);
• assisted reproductive technologies and IVF (animal and human);
• intensive and extensive animal production enterprises;
• regulatory, advisory and policy-making positions;
• laboratory and field research in the animal sciences (native and exotic wildlife, production and companion animals);
• veterinary pathology, histology, immunology and diagnostics;
• overseas aid in animal welfare and production;
• companion animal, equine and production animal nutrition, feed technology, veterinary and feed supplements;
• aquaculture and fish health;
• animal genomics and the genetic basis of disease;
• molecular biology (animal and human);
• secondary and tertiary education;
• animal breeding management;
• quality assurance and safety of food and feed products;
• animal health (eg Livestock Health and Pest Authorities);
• the pharmaceutical industry (human and veterinary);
• biotechnology (animal and microbial);
• biomedical research; media and journalism;
• Government departments including rural extension officers.