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With your ATAR alone it would seem difficult to get into vet at any Australian university. There are 7 vet faculties available to you. CSU (Wagga) & JCU (Townsville) seem to prefer rural experience. Most others require Year 12 results in the 90's. Although entrance marks have been declining...

I didn't do Bio. Bio is possibly the easiest as it is mostly rote learning. Physics/Chem/Maths are more based on founding principles. Best option is to do what you are good at so you can get good marks though. But then if you get good marks you could do medicine where you don't have to deal...

Unless you are one of the growing number of unemployed vets and have then spent 6 years of your life and have to go and do another degree. Plans for having a family or any sort of life might have to change then. No farm experience would make it difficult but not impossible to get into CSU...

CSU has a very low cutoff, maybe less than 90. The rural universities tend to have lower cutoffs because they have difficulty getting good staff and the better students usually choose cities where they have grown up and have more options to find work/spend time with family... whilst they are at...

Considering that veterinary graduate unemployment has quadrupled over the last 6 years, does driving a taxi count for work experience?

I am studying a scientific discipline and have links with many vets (some who are studying things like medicine).

Is it just me? ”Nearly half of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses who responded to the survey say that if they had their time again, they would choose a different career.“ Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 2010 profession wide survey...

Am pretty sure there are plenty of unemployed vets out there that are sour pussy's. Maybe go chat to some. Or you could google "veterinary stress", "veterinary suicide" or "veterinary unemployment".

The veterinary degree is 5-6 years (some have spent longer). About half of students spend $150,000 (Australian full fee) to $250,000 (International) plus living expenses to obtain the degree. Compare Courses rates it as the worst return on investment. I would call an 81% chance of getting a...

I guess it depends if you are comparing apples with apples. The vet degree is 5-6 years at university, one of the longest! Compared with medicine at 2% unemployment, vet is almost TEN times the unemployment rate! And about half the salary. Plus suicides in vet are double that in medicine...

Vet entry requirements have dropped massively over the last few years because of the poor employment outcomes. One in five vet graduates are unemployed after their five to six year university degree. So you could either wait for the decreasing STAT requirement or start another degree and...

This is the most important thing to consider. There are a gazillion people wanting to work with animals. Therefore there are a gazillion courses designed for these wannabe students. However many of them end with unemployment. Think wisely & research thoroughly the graduate outcomes and...

Did you get in this year Liz? I heard of one girl who got into USyd this year with a 93 so you would have cruised it in, the girl I know works as a vet nurse so may have helped. I have a few friends who used to be vets and changed into other professions. A fair few vets change professions...

If you want to get straight into vet science after school and are happy to travel to any of the seven universities then you need to do well but not amazing as long as you get some vet clinic work experience. The vet entry requirements have been declining because the unemployment has increased...

The veterinary workforce in Australia is quite small compared to other industries. The number of veterinary faculties in Australia has been increased from four to seven over the last decade, a 50% increase in veterinary students. More than 80% of vets work with pets. The number of pets are...

Direct from USyd website: http://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/bvsc/entry.shtml 2010 - 98.1 (ATAR) Australian veterinary graduate unemployment 9% 2011 - 97.55 (ATAR) Australian veterinary graduate unemployment 11%, USyd unemployment 16% 2012 - 97.35 (ATAR) Australian veterinary graduate unemployment...

Hey Kelvin, A good article is this one if you know someone at a university that can get access to it: Veterinary students' understanding of a career in practice. 2010. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20562377 It's from the United Kingdom which is quite similar to Australia and has a survey...

How do you know you'll love it if you've never done it? It isn't as widely well known that vets also have one of the highest suicide rates.

Some transfer into other degrees such as medicine because they find that many owners aren't willing to pay for treating pets and they end up having to kill a fair few. Others can't get a job on graduation. And some leave the profession because they think there are better ways of helping...

I feel the second part of this is more true than the first. It isn't necessarily hard, just have to put in many hours of rote learning. As some government ministers suggested a few years ago: The high (but declining) entry requirements are due to high demand for the course and not the...