Welcome to the Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine!
The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences are excited to offer a new opportunity for SDSU students interested in veterinary medicine. South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University (SDSU) and the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (UMN CVM) are offering a new collaborative Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine leading to a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree (DVM). Students first complete all their pre-veterinary requirements and apply to the new program for admission to the professional program. Students in the professional program complete the first two years of their veterinary medical education at South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State and the final two years at on the St. Paul campus. The first 20-student cohort will begin classes on the SDSU Brookings’ campus in the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department in August 2021.
The new collaborative program will concentrate on preparing veterinary students for food à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã or mixed à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã practice. An initial set of priority objectives for our new program includes helping to address a growing shortage of food à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã veterinarians, creating additional opportunities for South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã students to pursue careers across the spectrum of veterinary medicine, while supporting a growing agriculture-based industry in the Upper Midwest and addressing the growing concerns of student debt in veterinary education. South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã students participating in the new program will pay tuition based on in-state rates, realizing savings of thousands of dollars per student over their entire veterinary education.
During the first two years of SDSU’s professional school, local and regional veterinary practices will provide opportunities for our students to integrate the fundamental veterinary sciences with the clinical veterinary sciences.
The new Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine will replace a formal agreement that has been in place since 1993, under which the state of South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã has provided funding for six South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã students each year to attend Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine with South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã providing funding for the difference between out-of-state and in-state tuition. The Iowa agreement will remain in-place until current South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã students, attending Iowa State (prior to 2021), have completed their professional veterinary training in 2024.
For more information about SDSU’s Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine, please contact us at sdsu.ppvminfo@sdstate.edu.