Bachelors of Agribusiness / Veterinary Technology

Play a vital role in animal health and welfare by gaining practical business skills, advanced clinical expertise and specialised knowledge in veterinary technology with this hands-on dual program.

This 4-year dual program will develop your business skills and para-veterinary expertise to prepare you for a career in the Australian agribusiness and veterinary technology industries.

You'll learn how to market, finance and manage people and technology, along the agrifood value chain linking producers with consumers. You'll acquire knowledge of the business disciplines including commodity trading, human resource management, finance, supply chain management, sustainability and the e-technologies used to drive efficiency in agriculture.

As a para-veterinary healthcare specialist, you'll be equipped with critical thinking, problem solving and self-directed learning skills, preparing you for supervisory and management roles in a range of animal-related fields.

You'll study animal handling and care, welfare and behaviour, applied and clinical nutrition, mechanisms of animal disease and diagnostic techniques, clinical aspects of small and large animal health, veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics, veterinary surgical and medical nursing principles, and veterinary practice management.

In your first and second years, you'll gain at least 80 hours of practical sessions and off-campus studies of 30 days. In your third year, you'll complete a total of 19 weeks on clinical rotations and placements, where you'll connect with industry professionals and be exposed to workplace practice.

Program highlights

• Gain valuable hands-on experience through industry placements, case studies and fieldwork across both of your programs.
• Embark on your career with the best skill-set available. Join one of Australia's leading agribusiness programs and learn from internationally respected business experts.
• Experience city and rural living at two UQ campuses. You’ll take business courses in the award-winning UQ Business School at Brisbane's St Lucia campus and veterinary technology courses at UQ’s specialist rural Gatton campus.
• Study in some of the best animal and veterinary facilities in the Southern Hemisphere.