The Royal Veterinary College (established 1791), is part of the University of London, and is the largest veterinary school in the UK. It is located on two campuses in central London and in countryside just north of London. The College has a long tradition of making seminal contributions to animal care and welfare and public health and undertakes basic as well as applied research. This continues to the present day, with staff experienced in a wide range of disciplines and skills, complemented by the College's clinical facilities and modern, well-equipped laboratories. The college has repeatedly received favourable reports from visiting groups on the quality of its teaching including the maximum possible in the Quality Assurance Agency Review in 2000.

LOCATION
The College operates at two establishments, one at Camden Town in North London (the Camden campus) and the other on a 575-acre site near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire (the Hawkshead campus). The two campuses are about l5 miles apart and connection between them is by road and rail. For administrative purposes staff and students are in three academic Departments of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. However research activity is collected in Research Groups that cross departmental boundaries and are College wide. The College is well placed to benefit from the thriving academic community as well as the exciting multicultural society in London. Limited accommodation is available at the College and through the intercollegiate halls of London University.

ACCESSABILITY
Most postgraduate courses start in September, although research students may start at any time. Depending on the topic, degrees may undertaken by veterinary and non-veterinary graduates.

• Control of Infectious Diseases in Animals (one year full-time or 2-3 years part time)
• Wild Animal Health (one year full-time) jointly with the Institute of Zoology, London
• Wild Animal Biology (one year full-time) jointly with the Institute of
  Zoology, London
  
• Veterinary Epidemiology (one year full-time) jointly with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Veterinary Physiotherapy (two years part-time)

• Bioscience (one year full-time)

Livestock Health and Production
as part of the University of London External Programme (exprog@rvc.ac.uk)

Basic and applied research and scholarship is supported across a broad front but is concentrated in the following areas.

• Musculo-Skeletal Pathobiology
• Reproduction and Development
• Infection Inflammation and Repair
• Clinical Sciences