Pre-Veterinary Program

The Nova Scotia Agricultural College offers a two-year course of study which will prepare you to apply to a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. Students from NS, NB, PE, or NF will normally apply to the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Ours is a pre-vet science program with emphasis on animals used by people, the only pre-vet program where you study the animal industries of Atlantic Canada. Our size, our facilities, our orientation, work to give you the best pre-vet training in the country. We can say that because at NSAC, pre-vet rules!

An active Animal Science & Pre-Vet Club helps you get the kind of experiences that are important to your career. The Club organizes events and trips to improve your knowledge of animals and of veterinary science, for example, trips to the Atlantic Veterinary College and hands-on work sessions at the NSAC farm to help care for cows, sheep, poultry and ranch mink. No other east coast university can match that experience! The Pre-Vet club site is now online. Check it out!

If, after two years, you decide to continue working towards your NSAC/Dalhousie University degree, you will be able to blend smoothly into a B.Sc. program majoring in Animal Science or in Aquaculture.

2 yrs pre-vet +
2 years (animal science or aquaculture)
= Bachelor of Science (Agr.)