College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Veterinary Clinnical and Life Sciences
The Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine is administered by the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Life Sciences (VCLS) at Utah State University (USU). Currently, the Utah State University College of Veterinary Medicine is a partner in the Washington-Idaho-Montana-Utah (WIMU) Regional Program in Veterinary Medicine. This arrangement allows our veterinary medical students to spend their first two years at USU, and then finish the remaining two years of their clinical training at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Upon completion of their training, students receive their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree. Currently, 30 students are admitted to USU’s veterinary program each year, which includes 20 Utah residents and 10 nonresidents.
The new College of Veterinary Medicine , which was approved by the Utah Legislature in 2022, paved the way to form an independent four-year program, which includes the construction of a new veterinary medical education building on the USU campus in Logan, Utah. Accreditation through the American Veterinary Medical Association Council of Education (AVMA COE) is now underway. We expect to matriculate our first cohort of 40 students in the fall of 2025. We will continue to increase enrollment to full capacity by admitting 80 students per cohort each year, with 40 of those being Utah residents. Students accepted into the WIMU program prior to the Fall of 2025 will not be allowed to transfer into the new program and must complete the requirements and expectations presented as part of the WIMU program.
For further information go to: vetmed.usu.edu.
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