Animal Production and Animal Health An-Najah National University

Overview

Program Description

Our vision extends from the common vision of the University. The ‎Department seeks to deliver high quality education in Animal Production ‎and seeks to provide the local society with qualified and trained specialists ‎in this field. The Department is committed to undergraduate education ‎through continuous curriculum assessment and improvement and by ‎recruiting qualified Faculty members and Technicians. It is also committed ‎to graduate teaching and research through the MS Program offered by the ‎Department via the Faculty of Graduate Studies. The Department seeks to ‎become internationally recognized as one of the leading Departments in ‎the Region.‎

Industry

The Animal Production and Animal Health program of the An-Najah National University has signed memorandum of understanding with Palestine Poultry Company one which ‎allows senior level student to have short term internship in the company’s facilities. For instance , ‎students receive intensive training practices in the feed mill , the hatchery, the slaughter house and ‎the broiler breeder farms. The program has also signed agreement with NGO’S, the Ministry of ‎Agriculture, and the Palestinian Union of the Food Industries. These agreements  allow fourth year ‎animal products students to conduct training and off- campus lab sessions  related to livestock and ‎poultry issues.

Career Opportunities

Graduates majoring in animal production and animal health are ‎usually employed by companies of the private sector. The majority ‎of those graduated may be  Palestine Poultry Company (AzizA). ‎This company has  a large team of animal production specialists ‎who work in the feed mill, the hatchery, the slaughter house, and ‎the broiler breeder farms. Graduates from the Department of ‎animal production constitute the majority of these employees. ‎

Some of the graduates are employed by project dealing with ‎livestock production in Palestine that are run by non-government ‎organization (NGO's). Graduates are also employed by local private ‎poultry facilities, and dairy cattle forms especially in Jerico and ‎Hebron where the biggest dairy farms exist. Some graduates are ‎employed by the Ministry  of Education and by the Ministry of ‎Health. Others may have the opportunity to work in Arab countries ‎especially the Gulf ones like Saudia Arabia.‎