If you dream of working with animals, our practical specialist courses provide the skills, expert theory and qualifications required to enter important roles in animal care, management or animal science.
Our College and University Course programmes are taught by industry experts and practitioners and are focused on turning your passion into a career. On our courses, we adopt a personalised, hands on approach to your learning, ensuring that you succeed and achieve the qualification you desire.
What Courses are available?
For more information on the Animal Science & Animal Management courses available at Writtle University College, visit our postgraduate, undergraduate and college course pages.
Higher Education - Undergraduate Courses
Animal Science Courses
BSc (Hons) Animal Science
BSc (Hons) Animal Science (Zoo and Wildlife Conservation)
BSc (Hons) Animal Science (Pet Behaviour and Welfare)
BSc (Hons) Animal Science (Livestock Technology)
Foundation Year (Animal Science)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Science
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Science (Zoo Management)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Science (Pet Behaviour and Welfare)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Science (Livestock Technology)
Certificate of Higher Education in Animal Studies
Animal Management Courses
BSc (Hons) Animal Management
BSc (Hons) Animal Management (Zoo and Wildlife Conservation)
BSc (Hons) Animal Management (Pet Behaviour and Welfare)
BSc (Hons) Animal Management (Livestock Technology)
Foundation Year (Animal Management)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Management
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Management (Zoo Management)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Management (Pet Behaviour and Welfare)
Diploma of Higher Education in Animal Management (Livestock Technology)
Certificate of Higher Education in Animal Studies
Further Education - College Courses
Level 3 Advanced Technical Extended Diploma in Animal Science
Level 3 Advanced Technical Extended Diploma in Animal Management (1080)
Level 3 Advanced Technical Extended Diploma in Animal Management (720)
Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma in Animal Management
Level 3 Advanced Technical Certificate in Animal Management
Level 3 Diploma in Dog Grooming
Level 3 Diploma in Work-Based Animal Care
Level 3 Certificate in Practical Animal Care Skills
Level 2 Technical Certificate in Animal Management
Level 2 Extended Certificate in Work-Based Animal Care
Level 2 Certificate for Dog Grooming Assistants
Students come to Writtle University College, located near to Chelmsford, to bring their passion to life and gain practical real-world learning - setting them up for a future career in their chosen field.
Aimee Hill
BSc (Hons) Animal Management (Companion and Zoo Animals)
"I graduated with a 2:1 with a first class dissertation and took my poster to present it at the 19th Annual BIAZA conference at Edinburgh Zoo!
After I graduated I started my job as an animal keeper at Woburn Safari Park. I started on the reserves team which has primates and a variety of hoof stock including giraffe, zebra, and rhinos.
Being a safari park adds another element to animal keeping, as well as learning and developing my animal husbandry skills, I have also been able to develop my knowledge of animal behaviour. As customers are allowed to drive through the enclosures, a lot of them require patrolling to ensure the animals and customers are behaving themselves. I have patrolled the monkey jungle with our Barbary macaques attempting to destroy cars, the rhino section, and giraffe section. Spending such long periods of time observing the animal's has allowed me to better understand their behaviours, you learn their routines and can even start to predict what the animal will do next."
Harry Appleby
BSc (Hons) Animal Science
"Alongside graduating with a 1st class degree, I was also awarded 'The Universities Federation of Animal Welfare Award' for a research project making the greatest contribution to animal welfare science.
The research I completed was one of the first trials in the world to successfully develop a method which allowed chicken embryos to be sexed before they hatched. This research may provide an alternative to the slaughter of 4.2 billion male day old chicks around the world each year. After graduating I went on to achieve a life long goal of gaining accredited status as an Animal Welfare Officer (AWO)."
Kate Harper
BSc (Hons) Animal Management
"Achieving my BSc (Hons) Animal Management empowered me and given me the confidence to do whatever I want in my career.
I currently own a Dog Training school in Kent and am a Head Instructor for UK Sniffer Dogs plus an Instructor at Mantrailing UK. I employ a number of support staff and dog trainers who teach at three different locations.
As well as running my own dog school I have been lucky enough to be involved in all kinds of interesting projects such as teaching dog training programmes in prisons, consulting on welfare monitoring for therapy dogs, training dogs for 'Dogs for Autism' and have assisted the Army with search exercises with sniffer dogs I've trained myself."
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