Courses on Veterinary Nursing and Animal Care in New Zealand

Numerous academic programmes on Veterinary Nursing and Animal Care are conducted at many universities and colleges in New Zealand.

Unitec New Zealand, a renowned academic institution, offers a one year duration Diploma in Veterinary Nursing  and six months Certificate in Animal Management for overseas students. A degree programme, Bachelor of Applied Science (Animal Management and Welfare) is also available at the Unitec. Duration of the degree course is between 2 and 3 years. More details are available on http://www.unitec.ac.nz

Mahurangi Technical Institute (http://www.mti.net.nz) and Southern Institute of Technology (http://www.sit.ac.nz) are majorly popular for their short term certificate programmes for overseas students. Mahurangi Technical Institute offers a one year Certificate in Companion Animal Services while Southern Institute of Technology offers a one year National Certificate in Veterinary Nursing.

Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (http://international.nmit.ac.nz) conducts two one year certificate programmes, National Certificate in Veterinary Nursing and Certificate in Animal Care.

Bay Of Plenty Polytechnic (http://www.boppoly.ac.nz), a famous polytechnic institute in New Zealand, conducts six month duration certificate programmes such as National Certificate in Animal Care Level 2; Certificate in Animal Handling Level 3 (strands in Equine, Rural and Conservation, Retail and Service and National Certificate in Veterinary Nursing Level 5.

Massey University (http://www.massey.ac.nz), a reputed New Zealand university offers several programmes in the field of Veterinary Nursing and Animal Care and major courses available at the university are Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Clinical Science, Master of Veterinary Studies, Master of Veterinary Science, Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Public Health, Bachelor of Veterinary Science, Bachelor of Veterinary Technology and Diploma in Veterinary Nursing.

Other popular New Zealand academic institutions in the field of Veterinary Nursing and Animal Care higher education are, Otago Polytechnic (http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz), which conducts a National Certificate in Veterinary Nursing; Universal College of Learning-UCOL (http://www.ucol.ac.nz) that offers a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing; the University of Otago (http://www.otago.ac.nz) which awards a Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Management and WINTEC-Waikato Institute of Technology (http://www.wintec.ac.nz) that offers a National Certificate in Veterinary Nursing.