For Graduate Education:

Join Iowa State University for your graduate education on Preventive Veterinary Medicine or Population Sciences in Animal Health!

Iowa is #1 (US) in pork, egg, corn & soybean production. Also top 10 in sheep, beef, turkey, and milk production.
Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine (VDPAM) department, with a budget of approximately $28 million, and its 53 faculty and 137 staff are committed to supporting sustainable food animal agriculture
VDPAM research programs include ~$19.5 million of funded grants
- Infectious diseases, theriogenology, toxicology, welfare, diagnostics, public health
Teamwork with USDA, industry partners, commodity groups, and associations…
The ISU Vet Diagnostic Lab (VDL) is USA #1 in case numbers & revenues
- VDL faculty are leaders in applied research (recent examples, 1stto detect & develop diagnostic tools for PEDv, pioneer oral fluids testing)
The most comprehensive food animal curriculum of all 30 US CVMs
- 76 VDPAM courses, emphasizing teaching in the most progressive livestock systems
- Over 50% of ISU students track mixed or food animal medicine
- Home of “Diseases of Swine” book, Biosecurity assessment systems, Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC), Center for Food Security and Public Health.
You…. come and join us, be part of this story!

VDPAM offers graduate programs on the Certificate, Masters, and Ph.D. levels:

Veterinary Population Medicine
- Graduate Certificate Degree (15 online credits)
- Non-thesis Masters Degree (36 credits)
- Thesis Masters Degree (30 credits)
Population Sciences in Animal Health
- - Ph.D. Degree (72 credits)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Chloe Petersen
VDPAM Graduate Program Coordinator
Iowa State University
1712 S Riverside Dr, Room 2412 Lloyd Building
Ames, IA 50011