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About the Department of Animal Science

The Department of Animal Science at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad was founded on October 21, 1950 under the name of the Provincial Institute of Animal Science. A number of changes in the organizational structure occurred thereafter and the Department of Animal Science assumed its present form in 2002.

The Department of Animal Science has a leading role in the field of animal science in both the AP Vojvodina and the Republic of Serbia. The activities of the Department are focused on educational, scientific, research and specialist work with the primary objective of stimulating and enhancing animal science as one of the most important industries in the country.

Via research and development projects, the Department of Animal Science promotes close cooperation with cognate scientific and research institutions and industrial organizations, which results in new scientific achievements, products and technologies. The Department is renowned for its intensive international cooperation in the Balkans, Europe and worldwide.

In addition to the scientific cooperation, a significant professional cooperation is established between the Department and leading domestic companies in animal production, as well as individual agricultural producers, via education, courses and specialist lectures.

Why Study Animal Science?

Highly educated experts in the field of animal science are very important for the production of high-quality and safe raw materials in animal source foods used in human nutrition. The underlying importance of animal science in both the AP Vojvodina and the Republic of Serbia has been emphasised by proclaiming animal science one of the main priorities in the national agricultural programme.

The production of large amounts of crops used for animal feed could be more efficient provided that it is in accordance with animal source food production. Therefore, the principal objective of the study programme of Animal Science is to create highly competent experts in the rational and sustainable animal production, as well as in the application of contemporary biotechnologies in animal science in order to achieve a better organisation of the production and maximum benefits. The students of the study programme of Animal Science are introduced to the basics of mechanisation and automation in order to apply the acquired knowledge in the contemporary animal production with the optimal equipment, animal and workforce management.

The ultimate objective is to educate highly competent experts in the rational and sustainable animal production, as well as in the healthy and safe animal source food production with the effective environmental preservation.  

Principal Objectives of the Study Programme

The undergraduate academic study programme of Animal Science tends to accomplish the following objectives:

• the acquired knowledge and practice should be a logical enhancement of the primary and secondary school education;
• the competencies and high expertise in animal production,
• the students should be capable of applying modern technologies in intensive animal production,
• the students will acquire the knowledge and skills which will facilitate the efficiency of raw material production for animal source foods,
• the students will be capable of producing high-quality and healthy animal products,
• the students will be capable of planning and organising the sustainable animal production with environmental protection in practice,
• the students should actively keep abreast of contemporary achievements in animal science, their application in practice, further improvement and effectiveness in animal production,
•  the students should be capable of educating others and thus enable the diffusion of effective and efficient animal production,
• teamwork skill development,
• the individual application and development of new technologies in intensive animal production,
• the possibilities for applying the acquired knowledge in further education and obtaining a higher degree such as specialist, master’s and doctoral.
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Employment Possibilities

Agricultural organisations such as massive agricultural complexes, cooperatives, specialised animal farms, animal feed factories, raw material sections of slaughterhouses, dairy factories, and other companies dealing with the production and processing animal products;   

• Private farms and enterprises in animal production;
• Public, administrative and municipal bodies (agricultural stations and extention services, etc.);
• Banks and insurance companies;
• Laboratories at faculties and institutes;
• Education.

Possibilities for Further Education 

Bachelors of Science in Animal Science are competent experts capable of resolving practical issues in contemporary animal production as well as pursuing further education at master's and doctoral levels in cognate scientific fields.