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Degrees & Programs

Make a meaningful impact through animal science

Spark discoveries and disseminate new knowledge about the biology and management of domestic animals and put our knowledge to work to make a positive impact in the world.

Animal science offers undergraduate and graduate programs on the biology and management of food, laboratory and companion animal species, and opens the door to alumni around the globe who are active in a variety of fields.

10 Things the Animal Science Department Wants You to Know

Here in Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science (AnSci), we’re advancing understanding of animal biology and addressing the animal industries' most pressing problems. Scientific change is advanced when the public is informed, so we’ve asked faculty and staff across the department to share their most pressing messages.

10 things to know about the Department of Animal Science
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Quirine Ketterings, professor of animal science in CALS, connects with farmers about crop yields during a 2018 extension event at the Aurora Research Farm. Photo by Allison Usavage/Cornell University

Undergraduate program

Undergraduate program

Apply animal biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and other life sciences to the study of animal breeding and genetics, nutrition, physiology, growth, behavior and management.

Join the undergraduate program
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Emily Starceski '23 Photo by Allison Usavage

Graduate program

Graduate program

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