Program

About Program

·         This program is characterized by graduating veterinarians with outstanding abilities in one of the most essential and dangerous fields that attract the interest of every individual in the local and international community, which are the areas of quality, control, and food safety.

·         The veterinarian specialized in the area of quality, control, and animal food safety; such as meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, oils and fats, and their products and waste, which are the most dangerous foods and require special attention, is the only qualified graduate in the world to play this vital role.

·         Health control over food is the first line of defense for humans, as food represents a significant source of diseases transmitted to humans, and then the role of the program graduates is to preserve human health.

·         The program was established by the Ministerial Resolution No. 2450 of 2006.

·         Graduation requirements: 195 credit hours.

·         Classrooms: 4 in main hall building + Faculty departments halls + Veterinary Teaching Hospital halls.

·         Lab rooms: 2 in Health control of food + The Central Laboratory + departments laboratories + veterinary teaching hospital laboratories.

·         The program actual start time: September 2007.

·         11 batches have graduated from the program, the first one in 2011.

1.      Veterinarian to work in  restaurants, ministry of tourism , hotels , airports and airlines, Ministry of Agriculture and

2.      Food Safety Organization of FAO

3.      A Veterinary doctor in the Ministry of Justice  (Forensic Medicine

4.       Companies and factories of feed additives.

5.       Veterinary research institutes and veterinary departments in the National    Research Center and animal health research institutes.

6.       Academies, laboratories and farms of the armed forces and police.

7.       Veterinary diagnostic laboratories.

8.       Veterinary hospitals and animal farms, poultry, and fish.

9.       Abattoirs (slaughter houses) of animals and poultry.

10.   General Authority for Veterinary Services, which performs governmental and non-governmental services in various specialties.

11.   Zoos – clinics and laboratories.

12.   Faculty members in the faculties of veterinary medicine.

Joining and Registering Conditions

1.                   Joining is allowed for those with a high school diploma (Science), or its equivalent, or transferred from the corresponding veterinary medicine government faculties, according to the conditions set by the Supreme Council of Universities.

2.                   The Faculty sets the general rules for admission so that the student’s desire and the principle of equal opportunities are the basis for accepting students into credit hour programs.

3.                   Graduates of the faculties of veterinary medicine, pharmacy, human medicine, nursing, science and agriculture who have a bachelor's degree in academic discipline from Egyptian universities or foreign universities approved by the Supreme Council of Universities may be accepted.

4.                   International students can join according to the conditions set by the Supreme Council of Universities.

Address: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, PO Box 13736 Moshtohor - Toukh, Qalyubia, Egypt.

Tel. Number: 0020132461411 -  0020132463073

Fax:   0020132460640 - 0020132463074

Website: fvtm.bu.edu.eg