United by Purpose.
Built for Impact.

We provide world-class care for animals, serving the region with 24/7 hospital care and on-farm services.

Our veterinary students receive training in both companion and large animal medicine, with access to complex caseloads that are among the highest volume in academic veterinary medicine. Penn Vet’s House Officer Program is one of the largest training programs for residents and interns in the world, an outgrowth of our legacy as the birthplace of veterinary specialty programs. The School’s robust basic, translational, and clinical research programs train early career clinician-scientists, advancing our understanding of disease prevention, diagnosis and management, and propelling health care outcomes.

Faculty across multiple specialties are using Artificial Intelligence in the classroom, labs, and clinics to improve knowledge and outcomes on inherited eye diseases, equine lameness, swine behavior, and more. Our Shelter Medicine and Community Engagement Program provides medical care using mobile and in-shelter approaches and advises shelters and rescue organizations on best practices; the program also provides guidance and leadership on community engagement to maximize benefits to the community members. Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center, a national leader in sports medicine, rehabilitation training, and research, is optimizing the health and performance of working dogs.

Immunology, oncology,microbiology, and vaccinology research at Penn Vet has led to numerous scientific discoveries impacting animal and human health.

Our interdisciplinary programs and research centers, including the Penn Vet Cancer Center, the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases, the Center for Germline Cells and Transgenesis, the Comparative Immunotherapeutics Program, the Center for Host-Microbe Interactions, and the Comparative Medicine Group, provide resources and convergence hubs to address grand challenges in biomedical research.

Penn Vet is recognized as a leader in wildlife health, biodiversity, and disease research through our Wildlife Futures Program, which optimizes wildlife management for Pennsylvania and beyond. The School’s OneHealth@Penn Research Community convenes faculty and students who are working on innovative solutions to address climate change, biodiversity, antimicrobial resistance, global food security, and emerging diseases.

Our dual degree programs, the broadest portfolio of master’s programs available to veterinary students in the world, which span six schools at Penn (the renowned VMD-PhD, VMD-MES, VMD-ML, VMD-MN/Nursing, VMD-MSW, VMD-MSTR, VMD-MPH,VMD-MBA), along with our Master of Animal Welfare and Behavior program, prepare future veterinarians to engage in interdisciplinary problem solving at the critical juncture of human health, environmental health, and animal health and welfare.

We are a key partner to agriculture, the largest economic driver in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, serving on the front lines of animal health care, surveillance, and diagnostics.

The Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security (CSAFS) provides training, research, and expertise in infectious disease surveillance, animal welfare, population medicine, and productivity, benefiting farmers, industry partners, and veterinarians. We are developing novel and scalable methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the animal agriculture sector, including mitigating enteric (rumen) and non-enteric (waste and landfill origin) methane. We are participating in organic and regenerative agriculture and improving the health of our land and watersheds by integrating grazing and forestry through agroforestry and silvopasture practices.

As part of the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System (PADLS), Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center (NBC) helps to protect animals and humans from health threats and minimize agricultural economic loss.

Nationally renowned for advancing equine surgery and medicine, NBC is the cornerstone of Pennsylvania’s equine sector economy. We are advancing the health and welfare of horses through research on orthopedic injuries, laminitis, colic, neurologic conditions, viral infections, and racehorse safety through the Pennsylvania Equine Toxicology and Research Lab (PETRL). Our students experience a breadth of equine clinical rotations and equine performance specialties that are unmatched among the 35 U.S. accredited veterinary schools

We are committed to increasing outreach to socioeconomically disadvantaged, first-generation, and rural middle, high school, and undergraduate students, inspiring them to pursue careers in STEM and veterinary medicine.

Our multicultural programs promote learning about and celebrating differences, enhancing veterinary students’ training, and preparing them to serve a host of constituencies.

Penn Vet employs a team of social work professionals who understand the unique wellness challenges in veterinary medicine. Our Veterinary Social Work Training Program provides essential, no-cost mental health and well-being support to students, clients, and clinical teams. We host graduate-level social work interns and post-graduate fellows who deliver high-quality, closely supervised services to the institution. These trainees offer individual counseling, support for clinical students and clients, and lead well-being initiatives across the hospitals.

Our Penn Vet alumni foster opportunity, community, and career growth through alumni mentorship and offer guidance to students and recent graduates on clinical pathways, specialization, practice ownership, and wellness.