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Undergraduate veterinary students looking at an equine cadaver leg in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonington

Vet medicine: facilities

Modern, purpose-built facilities to help you get the most from your course.

Our beautiful 1000-acre Sutton Bonington campus is theÌýperfect place to study veterinary medicine.

There’s a huge range of specialist facilities - from a dairy farm and working abattoir, to clinical skills labs - so you can get hands-on experience and gainÌýthe skills you need.

What's on offer?

SirÌýPeter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

In 2024 we opened our new £3 million Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre for small animal clinical teaching. There is a full practice area, general teaching spaces, andÌýdedicated areas for both small animals and larger livestock.

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For final year, there's a new mock practice building whichÌýis set up like a hospital. It's got surgeries, a dispensary, consulting rooms, aÌýprep area. They set up scenarios and you’ve got to work things out. It’s aÌýreally good way of teaching because you are actually doing the job.

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Katie Siddons

Teaching facilities

  • Lecture theatre and large seminar room
  • Small-group teaching rooms used for group work and private study
  • Research facilities and laboratories
  • STEM lab

One of the things about Nottingham is that we really areÌýpractical from day one. You will be here in prelim year, in first year, right the way through until fourth year, before you go out on rotations.

Niamh Dinne-Mason

Clinical facilities

  • A large anatomy laboratory
  • Surgery suite for smaller group work
  • A clinical skills laboratory, for practical work with live animals
  • Dissection suite, for practicals with cadaver material and specimens
  • Clinical skills rooms
  • Animal facilities including kennels for teaching dogs (who belong to the staff!)

Other facilities

  • 16 stables for veterinary student horses*
  • An indoor menage and a final year farm and equine study centreÌý ÌýÌý
  • Exotic smallholding, housing reptilesÌý Ìý ÌýÌý
  • Farm smallholding with cows, sheep and pigs
  • Poultry areaÌý Ìý ÌýÌý
  • Dairy Farm (Centre for Excellence in Livestock)Ìý Ìý ÌýÌý
  • Working abattoirÌýÌý

*You may bring a horse, if there is room in our school stables. Your horse must be suitable for use in equine practicals. Stables are offered on a first-come first-served basis. Livery costs from £22 per week,Ìýdependent on season.

See for yourself: take a virtual tour!

Open Day June 2022