Learning Goals
The mission of the VDPAM PhD Program is to promote research, disseminate knowledge, and create future leaders in the area of Population Sciences in Animal Health.
By nature, research and training in Population Sciences is cross-disciplinary with other graduate programs at ISU, e.g., agricultural and biosystems engineering, animal science, animal behavior and welfare, bioinformatics and computational biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, economics, genetics and genomics, immunobiology, veterinary microbiology, veterinary pathology, statistics, and toxicology.
The student’s work and progress will be under the supervision of a major professor and an Academic Plan Committee (APC). Successful completion of the program is achieved through the defense of a doctoral dissertation and completion of at least 72 credits. There is a minimum of 26 credits from coursework, and the remaining credits are typically research credits.
