- UAB Master's Degree (Continuing Education)
- Code: 3865/7
- 7th edition
- Modality: Onsite
- Credits: 60 ECTS
- Start date: 21/02/2025
- Finish date: 28/11/2025
- Places: 35
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 4800 €
- Teaching language: Spanish (80%), English (20%)
- Location: Facultat de Veterinària. Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Barcelona)
The master's degree in Animal Welfare enables the knowledge and skills required to be able to manage and advise on any aspect relating to the welfare of farm, domestic and wild animals.
The master's degree is focused on the scientific foundations of animal welfare, but it also explores ethical and social aspects. The programme will allow the student to be able to evaluate animal welfare, propose preventive measures and find out and resolve the major animal welfare problems of the various centers that have animals that are stabulous or free (farms, protectors, zoos, etc.).
The master's degree has a total duration of 10 months and includes a first face-to-face stage with classes, visits and practices (3 months) and a second distance stage for the completion of assignments, cases, and the Final Master's Project (6 months). Both stages are mandatory and not interchangeable or modifiable in terms of dates or format.
The master's degree is carried out in one of the best veterinary faculties in the world and is taught by internationally recognized experts in the field of animal welfare.
Download the informative document of the master's degree in Animal Welfare (in Spanish) for complete information.
Career opportunities
- Veterinary animal welfare specialist.- Animal welfare researcher.
- Animal welfare consultant for farms, breeding establishments, sanctuaries, zoos, etc.
- Animal welfare expert in local, national or international agencies, in private companies or in education.
Internships
UAB masters and graduate diplomas may include or facilitate external academic internships in companies or institutions in order to help the student to achieve a level of expertise that facilitates the insertion or promotion in the workplace.
For this study programme non-curricular (optional) internships are possible:
- Non-curricular
As a UAB student, you have access to the University occupation portal, the Occupability Service, through which you can participate in selection processes for non-curricular practices as well as getting a contract. In both cases, you need to sign up to the Nexus application.
Scholarships and financial aid
Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.
Coordinating centres
Departamento de Ciencia Animal y de los Alimentos
Collaborating centres
Explotación ganadera Mas Castanyer
Explotación ganadera Mas Vilallonga (Gerfarm Rubirola)
Fundació Hospital Clínic Veterinari de la UAB
Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentarias (IRTA)
International Zoo Veterinary Group
Matadero ESFOSA
Oceanogràfic de València y Fundación Oceanogràfic
Parc Zoològic de Barcelona
Universidad de Cádiz
Universidad de Murcia
University of Copenhagen
Utah State University
Servei de Granges i Camps Experimentals de la UAB
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Zoo Antwerp - Centre for research and Conservation
Organización Mundial de Sanidad Animal (OMSA)
Centre de Recuperació d'Amfibis i Rèptils de Catalunya (CRARC)
Universidad Austral de Chile
R-Wild Consultoria
European Association of Zoo and Wildlafe Veterinarians
CAAD (Centre Acollida d'Animals Domèstics) de Terrassa
Explotación ganadera Can Gel
Centre de Recuperació d'Animals Marins de Catalunya (CRAM)
CosmoCaixa Barcelona - Museo de la Ciencia de Barcelona
Contact
Oriol Tallo Parra
Phone: 935811352