Overview

Key facts:

The Animal Science programme is offered at the University Of Ibadan.
The Department actively pursues this vision and remarkable successes have been achieved in areas of feed evaluation for poultry and swine, effects of gene/nutrition/environment interaction on reproduction in farm animals, application of in vitro gas production in the evaluating the feeding value of our forages for ruminants, value addition of animal products and application of fungal biotechnology for improving the nutritive value of high fibre feedstuffs. Our training program is made up of teaching and practical components.
Students actively participate in farm and laboratory practicals and they are represented in the Departmental Farm Committee. Our postgraduate programme is well designed for adequate equipment of our graduating students. The Department is in active collaborative research and partnership with private farms, the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) and the International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) through her Poultry Research Group (PRG) and Dairy Research Group (DRG). In the years ahead the Department hopes to make significant progress in research in evolving areas such as livestock production and environmental sustainability, impact of climate change on livestock production and organic agriculture.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Agricultural Biochemistry
Food Science and Technology
Metabolism of Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic acids
Analytical Techniques in Agriculture
Biochemical And Metabolism Of The Vitamins, Minerals And Hormones
Chemistry and Nutritive Value of Nigerian Feeds and Feedingstuffs
Analytical Techniques in Agriculture and Nutrition

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-21 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ibadan, Nigeria

Disciplines

Animal Science

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

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