The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences (FVAS) is a faculty of the University of Melbourne. The faculty is a medium for undergraduate education and academic research into economically and medically important fields related to agriculture and veterinary science, such as agronomy, biosecurity, environment, food security, food science, parasitology, pest control, veterinary virology, zoonotic diseases, etc. [1]
The faculty is structured as follows:
The Melbourne School of Land and Environment was disestablished on 1 January 2015. Its agriculture and food systems department moved alongside veterinary science to form the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, while other areas of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty of Science in two new departments. Previous constituent entities include the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (1995), Institute of Land and Food Resources (1997), Faculty of Land & Food Resources (2005) and School of Agriculture and Food Systems (in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment). [6]
The faculty operates through the following facilities: [7]
The faculty offers the following courses: [10]
(*) The faculty requires all students undertaking at least these courses to be vaccinated for the zoonotic bacterium Coxiella burnetii , the causal agent of Q fever. [11]
Several student societies exist to foster cohesion among students in the faculty:
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has produced and annual rank, since 2017, of universities according to subject area in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. The table below summarises the rankings of the University of Melbourne in the subjects of 'Agriculture' and 'Veterinary Sciences', in comparison to all universities and Australian universities only. Since 2018, the University of Melbourne Department of Veterinary Biosciences has ranked second in Australia in Veterinary Sciences, behind the University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science. [18]
| Subject | Geographic scope | 2017 ranking | 2018 ranking | 2019 ranking | 2020 ranking | 2021 ranking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | World | 47 |  40 |  43 | 30 | 32 |
| Agriculture | Australia | 6 | 5 |  5 | 3 | 3 |
| Veterinary Sciences | World | 39 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 21 |
| Veterinary Sciences | Australia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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