University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest

In 1787, shortly after the foundation of the world's first veterinary school (1762, Lyons) a "Chair for Animal Healing" was established at the Faculty of Medicine in the town of Pest (now an area of the city of Budapest) to provide students of medicine and surgery with basic knowledge of animal diseases and their management, an integral part of a general practitioner's activity at that time. 

Veterinaty Medicine Programme (One-Tier Master) 

• Practice-oriented training: Theoretical foundation of studies, followed by a practical training on how to treat and cure animals
• Quality education, 5.5 years:
• Preclinical period: 4 semesters, main subjects (like Anatomy, Histology, Biochemistry etc) and farm practicum in animal husbandry
• Clinical-paraclinical period: 7 semesters, includes the paraclinical subjects (like Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Food Hygiene, State Veterinary Medicine and Economics, Forensic Veterinary Medicine etc), and weekly clinical hours in Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Obstetrics and Animal Reproduction

Scientific research and teaching are equally decisive and important areas of activity at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest. Our top priorities include ensuring open access to scientific publications and supporting open access publications financially. We wish to maintain our marketability by continuing our productive and internationally recognized research activity, and by increasing the number and international recognition of research areas, especially through encouraging our lecturers and professors to regularly attend conferences and continuing professional training courses and through promoting the publication of research findings in scientific journals with impact factors.

Fields of Career Opportunities

• Small and Large Animal Clinics
• State Office of Veterinary Hygiene
• Public Health
• Farms
• Zoo
• Exotic animals