The School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) was established in 1951 as the veterinary major of Hunan Agricultural College. Through the efforts of several generations for nearly 70 years, SVM has developed into a teaching and research-oriented institution with outstanding discipline advantages, strong teacher resources, excellent educational conditions, and distinctive academic characteristics.

SVM has a total of 80 teaching staff, with 57 of them being full-time teachers. Among the faculty members, there are 22 professors, 18 associate professors, and 49 doctoral degree holders. Notably, there is one “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” lecture Professor, three special professors of the “One Hundred Experts Program” (a national personnel development project organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences), two special professors awarded as “Furong Scholar” in Hunan province, three recipients of the “Outstanding Youth Fund”, three Provincial Teaching Experts, one “Overseas Master Teacher”, one “Hunan High-level Talents Aggregation Project” member, two awarded as “Excellent Youth Talents of Changsha City” and one special professor of “Shen Nong Scholars” of Hunan Agricultural University.

SVM has a post-doctoral research station of veterinary medicine, a first-category doctoral program of veterinary medicine, a first- category master's program of veterinary medicine, and three undergraduate majors in Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Pharmacy, and Veterinary Quarantine.

SVM is dedicated to cultivating top-tier talents with a strong foundation in moral education and a commitment to strengthening the agriculture. Focusing on animal health breeding and animal-derived food safety, the school conducts research in fields such as prevention and control of animal diseases, development of new veterinary drugs, and regulation of reproduction for healthy breeding. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has achieved more than 20 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, five teaching achievement awards, and over 70 scientific research projects. The total contract funding for these projects amounts to over 25.447 million RMB. Additionally, 126 papers have been published in SCI journals.

Historical Development

The predecessor of the School of Veterinary Medicine can be traced back to 1951, when Hunan Agricultural College was established. At the beginning of its establishment, the veterinary department was set up, and two sessions of veterinary students were enrolled. In 1952, due to the Ministry of Education's national university faculty adjustment, veterinary students and teachers were transferred to Jiangxi Agricultural College. Veterinary education resumed between 1958 and 1965, with the enrollment of undergraduates in veterinary medicine. Between 1966 and 1969, the recruitment of veterinary undergraduates was halted due to the Cultural Revolution. However, enrollment resumed from 1970 to 1976, with animal husbandry and veterinary college students being recruited from the “workers, peasants, and soldiers”. In 1977, the national college entrance examination enrollment system was resumed, and undergraduates specializing in veterinary medicine were recruited through this system. Postgraduate training began in 1978. In 1988, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine was renamed as the Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries. In November 2005, the School of Animal Medicine was established from the School of Animal Science and Technology to meet the needs of the national veterinary system reform and international veterinary education, Since then, the school's veterinary education has entering a new stage for its development and a professional college for training veterinary professionals. The coverage of professional education has been expanded to animal medicine, animal pharmacy, animal quarantine, pet medical care, animal husbandry, and veterinary medicine at the cultivation of undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students.

School-running Characteristics

SVM is dedicated to implementing the scientific concept of development and teaching quality, focusing on expanding the scale of school running in a steady and active manner. It has formed a teaching and research-oriented environment that emphasizes theoretical and practical teaching, professional and quality education, innovative and application abilities, and offers complete levels of bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees. The school offers correspondence teaching, full-time self-study, and on-the-job postgraduate study, with multiple specialties and disciplines that coexist and synergistically develop. SVM is known for its strong theoretical foundation, practical skills, and application abilities. Practical teaching is put on a significant position in the overall teaching process. Over the years, it has optimized its practical teaching system and built platforms for experimental teaching, skill development, comprehensive practical training, and internships. It has also strengthened practical teaching in all aspects and formed a practical teaching system that combines entrance education with employment training, classroom experimental teaching with open laboratory teaching, and on-campus practical training with off-campus internships. The practical teaching system is aligned with enterprises, industries, society, and international standards. As a result, SVM has become known for its optimized practical teaching system, strengthened practical skills teaching, and comprehensive cultivation of applied technical talents, making it outstanding in the field of veterinary medicine education.

Discipline and Degree

The Veterinary discipline of the school, a key discipline in Hunan province, was rated as “Excellent” in the Key Disciplinary Assessment in the 12th Five-Year Plan of Hunan Province and rated at “B minus” in the 4th-Round Disciplinary Assessment at the national level.

Postdoctoral Station (2012)

Doctoral Program

First-Category PhD Degree Program

● Veterinary Medicine (2017)

Second-Category PhD Degree program

● Clinical Veterinary Medicine ( 2005)

Master Program

First-Category Master Degree Program

● Veterinary Medicine (2004)

Second-Category Master Degree Programs:

● Veterinary Parasitology

● Veterinary Pathology,

● Basic Veterinary Medicine

● Preventive Veterinary Medicine

● Clinical Veterinary Medicine

Bachelor Program

● Veterinary Medicine (1951)

● Animal Pharmacy (1994)

Scientific Research and Social Services

Scientific Research Platforms and Bases

● National Animal Science Experimental Teaching and Demonstration Center

● National Livestock & Poultry Safety Production and Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center

● Hunan Province University Student Innovation Training Center

● Hunan Graduate School Practice Teaching Base

● Hunan Province Undergraduate Practice Teaching Base

● Veterinary Drug Sub-center of the National Plants Functional Component Utilization Engineering Technology Center

● National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Veterinary Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources and Chinese Veterinary Drug

● Provincial Key Laboratory for Veterinary Protein Engineering Vaccine

● Provincial Key Laboratory for Chinese Veterinary Medicine

● Hunan Veterinary Drug Engineering Technology Research Center

● Hunan Province Veterinary Vaccine Reverse Creation Engineering Technology Research Center

● Hunan Livestock and Poultry Production Safety 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center

Social Services

With the aim of scientific and technological innovation and serving the three rural issues, the discipline focuses on prevention and control of animal disease, mainly animal disease prevention and control, drug discovery, reproductive control. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has undertaken three major national research and development plans, one preliminary research project to 973 Program, and more than 30 other projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and the National Natural Science Funds. In the past five years, SVM has gained 27 projects at the national level and 70 provincial or ministerial level projects, with a total funding of more than 3500 million Yuan, and four Hunan science and technology progress awards, 20 national patents, one new national veterinary drug, and more than 170 SCI papers.