Bachelor
Start your career as a veterinary technologist with the Bachelor of Veterinary Technology from Charles Sturt University, offered in partnership with GOTAFE. Study online part-time or on campus full-time or part-time, gaining skills in animal handling, pharmacology, and anaesthesia for diverse career opportunities.
Give yourself the best start to your career as a veterinary technologist with our Bachelor of Veterinary Technology from Charles Sturt University. Working in animal care is the perfect fusion of passion, skill and knowledge. This vet tech degree - a dual qualification offered in partnership with GOTAFE - enhances them all.
You can study your veterinary technology degree online part-time or on campus, either full-time or part-time. Whichever you choose, you'll gain all the veterinary technologist skills you need - from ways of handling animals to animal pharmacology and veterinary anaesthesia. So when you graduate you'll be ready to grasp any number of vet tech job opportunities with confidence, whether in urban and regional veterinary surgeries and clinics, diagnostic labs, zoos, horse or cattle studs, feedlots or livestock enterprises.
Please note: The online study option for this course is only available part-time.
This course is part of an articulated program of study. Articulated programs allow you to build on your study to achieve the right level of qualification for you.
Selection rank: 70
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Vaccination Requirements required prior to study
Students commencing the Bachelor of Veterinary Technology will be required to be vaccinated against both Q Fever and Tetanus before commencing study on campus (including Intensive Schools) or workplace learning.
The Q Fever vaccine, Q-Vax, will require pre-vaccination screening and can be delivered by your general practitioner. Please refer to the Government Q Fever Vaccination Fact Sheet for further information.
The Tetanus vaccine is also available from your general practitioner and requires to be updated with a booster every 10 years. If you have already received your Tetanus vaccination you will need to provide evidence that his has been received within the indicated timeframe. Please refer to the Government Tetanus Fact Sheet for further information.
More information regarding vaccination requirements can be found in the Requirements tab on the Workplace Learning website.
Standard English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirements apply. Click here to view the specific international course entry requirements.
Inherent requirements are the academic and other requirements of a course that all students must meet to achieve the course learning outcomes, and the knowledge, abilities, skills and qualities students will need to have in order to achieve them. Please visit our inherent requirements page for more general information about them.
For each 8-point subject you are enrolled in, you should expect to spend 10 to 12 hours per week working on assignments and assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, and attending lectures, intensive schools, or examinations. If you are studying four subjects per session, this is equivalent to a full-time job. The workload for some subjects may vary as a result of approved course design.
You may need to attend an online or on-campus intensive school for certain subjects in this course. These schools usually involve lectures, tutorials and practicals that will give you a deeper understanding of your subject.
Select two (2) subjects from the following:
CodeSubjectCredit PointsACC240Financial Management of Small Business8 credit ptsAGB110Agricultural Economics8 credit ptsAGB310Agricultural Marketing8 credit ptsAHT231Agricultural Finance and Business Management8 credit ptsEQS110Equine Health and Disease8 credit ptsEQS210Equine Disease Prevention8 credit ptsASC212Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics8 credit ptsASC305Parasitology8 credit ptsASC370Ruminant Production and Welfare8 credit ptsASC474Intensive Animal Production and Welfare8 credit ptsASC475Meat And Fibre Science8 credit ptsBIO203Animal Diversity8 credit ptsBIO330Wildlife Management8 credit ptsBIO430Avian Biology8 credit ptsBIO437Conservation Management of Birds8 credit ptsHRM210Human Resource Management8 credit ptsLAW110Business Law8 credit ptsMGT210Organisational Behaviour8 credit ptsMGT220eCommerce8 credit ptsMKT110Marketing Fundamentals8 credit ptsPSC202Crop And Pasture Science8 credit ptsPSC360Pastures and Rangelands8 credit ptsASC311Comparative Animal Anatomy and Physiology8 credit pts