Graduate Education

For a listing of current MSc and PhD research opportunities click here. For a listing of summer research opportunities click here.

For the online application to the Veterinary Medical Sciences Graduate Program click here for Fall 2012 admissions or click here for Winter 2013 and beyond admissions ( You will be prompted to create or have your eID ready to access the on-line application.)

Veterinary Medical Sciences graduate program Policies and Procedure manual: readable version, downloadable PDF

Welcome!

The graduate and postgraduate education mission of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is to be an international leader in the training of animal health researchers and postgraduate veterinarians who will advance animal and public health as well as the veterinary profession.

We have almost 100 research and clinical trainees and steadily continue to climb towards our target of 200. The programs that we have are as follows:

• Graduate training leading to MSc and PhD degrees;
• Internships (one year) for DVM graduates to gain additional experience in specialty clinical areas (small animal, bovine, equine, zoo medicine);
• Postdoctoral fellowships for research trainees that already have PhD degrees;
• Undergraduate summer research studentships designed to provide rich exposure to research and promote graduate student recruitment.

The features of our graduate program are:

• generous graduate student awards:
• reimbursement of international student tuition fees (i.e. international students pay same fees as Canadian students);
• working within a research-intensive veterinary school with close linkages to the medical school and partner agencies in the public and private sector
• an optional 4-6 month research rotation program to allow students a variety of work environments with different professors in order to make more informed decisions about supervisors; (please note that this program will be suspended after Fall 2012)
• strong training in basic research skills and in addition to, communication, ethics and career options;
• minimal residency requirement to encourage research work off site;
• commitment to completion of MSc within 2 years, and completion of candidacy (qualifying) exam for PhD student within 18 months.

For more information please contact:
VMS Graduate Program Administrator
vmgrad@ucalgary.ca