If you are seriously considering a future career as a veterinarian, you should prepare now for admission to college. The college preveterinary program requires 2 years of chemistry and 1 semester of biology, physics, biochemistry, genetics, mathematics, and statistics. Future veterinarians need to be good students with strong interest and ability in the biological sciences. Typical graduates are people who like work that is both indoors and outdoors and jobs that require both physical and mental exertion. All graduates of the professional veterinary medical program are able to find jobs in their field.
Veterinary medicine provides career opportunities equally good for women as for men.
Female enrollment in the CSU professional veterinary medical program has risen steadily over the past few years, as more women are entering the profession. More people apply for admission to the professional school of veterinary medicine than can be admitted. In choosing the most qualified applicants, the Admissions Committee looks for those who have shown high scholastic ability and who have gained an understanding of animals and of the profession through such activities as 4-H, Medical Explorer Scouts, hobbies, extracurricular programs at school, and paid or volunteer work on farms or ranches, in pet stores, kennels, animal shelters, research laboratories, or veterinary clinics. Veterinarians have a variety of career opportunities available to them. These include positions in private practice, industry, government, military, teaching and research, as well as in specialized areas such as laboratory animal medicine, zoos, wildlife refuges, animal shelters, racetracks, and even space medicine.