The Department of Animal Science also incorporates hands-on experience in to the curriculum. The horse, large animal and lab animal practica allow experience with daily care of those animals. The Animal Handling, Fitting, and Exhibition course enables students to work with an animal in a show setting as well as preparation of their animal for the show. Students also may find a position as a veterinary assistant or other animal oriented position to complete their Co-op education requirement. There are only 27 veterinary schools in the US, and only one state has two schools.
Most schools are state-funded, and so most schools accept students mostly from their own state.
Those seats are reserved exclusively for New Jersey students. Cook college graduates have, an average, had a success rate of at least one out of two.