The College of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1993. Since its establishment, its teaching and administrative staff has taken upon itself the responsibility of incubating students over a period of five years to study veterinary medicine curricula, which in its entirety provides the student with information and theoretical, practical and clinical experiences to practice veterinary medicine and perform surgical operations in various animals.
Since then, the College of Veterinary Medicine has been moving towards developing and rehabilitating its teaching cadres to include all veterinary and scientific disciplines, bringing the number of its scientific branches to seven, represented by the Microbiology and Parasitology Branch, Physiology, Medicines and Chemistry Branch, Histology, Anatomy and Embryology Branch, Diseases and Poultry Diseases Branch, Internal and Preventive Medicine Branch, Branch Public Health and the Branch of Veterinary Surgery and Obstetrics. Special laboratories have been allocated for each branch, equipped with the latest laboratory equipment, educational aids, and supplies required for conducting laboratory tests, to be the nucleus for the opening of postgraduate studies in 2001 to receive veterinarians and graduate students and grant them higher certificates after completing the certificate requirements.
After 2003, there were constructive and tangible steps in the development of the College of Veterinary Medicine from an urban point of view, as other buildings were added to it and worked to expand laboratories and classrooms, as well as establishing fields for raising ruminants and building a special hall for poultry, while special houses were established for breeding laboratory animals and rabbits. The central research laboratory in the college to include the latest types of laboratory equipment and to open the door for postgraduate students to work in the laboratory, whether from inside or outside the college or university. The library was also developed to include sections of periodicals, theses, in addition to various modern scientific and veterinary books and the electronic library.
Today, the College of Veterinary Medicine - University of Basra has become a pioneer in scientific forums and a pioneer in many activities through its holding of conferences and scientific seminars or through its participation in research and applied studies, and after all these possibilities and conditions are available to receive graduate students, the college today receives what is not Annually less than 25 graduate students in various basic veterinary specialties, including clinical, provide society and state institutions with veterinarians and specialized scientific cadres and have the ability to take care of everything related to animal health, livestock and animal production, as well as matters related to environmental pollution, public health, and common animal and human diseases. In addition to working in institutes and research centers related to food industries and animal products, the college contributes to providing advisory and therapeutic services to owners of animal and poultry breeding projects and relevant state departments through the scientific advisory center and the advisory clinic for veterinary medical services affiliated to the college. Students of advanced years at the college are trained in the educational animal field as well as in the veterinary hospital of the Ministry of Agriculture. The language of instruction in the College of Veterinary Medicine (English).
The certificates granted by the College of Veterinary Medicine are:
Higher Diploma
1- Veterinary internal and preventive medicine
2- Veterinary surgery
3 Veterinary obstetrics
Master's
1- Microorganisms
2- Veterinary physiology
3-public health
4- Internal and preventive medicine
5-Veterinary diseases
6- Veterinary obstetrics
7- Veterinary surgery
8- Poultry diseases
PhD
- Microorganisms and veterinary parasites
- Veterinary physiology
- Internal and preventive medicine
- Histology Ph.D