Other postgraduate award
Graduate Certificate in Dairy Herd Health
University College Dublin · UCD School of Veterinary Medicine · No campus · institution based in Ireland
- Official award
- Graduate Certificate in Dairy Herd Health
- Pathway
- Science and researchStated for Ireland
- Format
- Hybrid16 months
- Tuition
- Not published
Hybrid program
About this program
Sixteen-month distance-learning graduate certificate for registerable veterinarians, delivered online through problem-based learning with a few face-to-face days at Lyons research farm.
- Subject
- Veterinary clinical sciences
- Department
- UCD School of Veterinary Medicine
- Awarding body
- University College Dublin
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. An award title such as DVM, BVSc, BSc or MSc does not decide it, and no degree, accreditation or listing by itself grants permission to practise anywhere.
- Degree level
- Other postgraduate awardA formal postgraduate award such as a graduate certificate or diploma. Clinical internships, residencies and specialist certification are not academic degrees and are not listed here unless a degree is explicitly awarded.
- Pathway
- Veterinary science and researchAcademic and research programs (veterinary science, biomedical sciences, public health, epidemiology, pathology and similar). They do not by themselves qualify graduates to practise as veterinarians.
- Why we classify it this way
- The entry requirement is a degree in veterinary medicine registerable with the Veterinary Council of Ireland; it is a postgraduate programme for veterinarians.“Applicants must possess a degree in Veterinary medicine that is registerable with the Veterinary Council of Ireland”Source
- Prior degree required
- Yes
Accreditation, evaluation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Program accreditation, evaluation status, professional-body recognition, eligibility toward registration, institutional recognition, directory listings and memberships are different things; none of them is automatic permission to practise, and recognition in one country does not guarantee registration in another.
No accreditation, recognition or registration-pathway record for this program has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person (campus attendance, laboratory work, attendance-based exams or clinical placements). A hybrid program is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Mostly online
- Mandatory campus attendance
- Yes
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Approximately four face-to-face teaching days at Lyons research farm are expected
- Mandatory clinical or workplace placement
- No placement stated; applicants need access to dairy farms and dairy farm data for coursework
- Placement arrangement
- Student arranges the placement
- Must already work in a veterinary setting
- Yes
- Placement site approval
- Not published
- Required professional status or prior education
- Degree in veterinary medicine registerable with the Veterinary Council of Ireland, with two to three years of relevant veterinary practice experience
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- 16 months
- Intakes
- Late August 2028 (applications open January 2028)
Source could not be re-checked automatically.
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Animal or veterinary experience
- Animal or veterinary experience requiredAt least two to three years of relevant veterinary practice experience, access to dairy farms and farm data
- Interview
- Not published
- Previous qualification
- Veterinary medicine degree registerable with the Veterinary Council of Ireland
- Official instructions
- Application instructions
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Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether clinical or laboratory charges, equipment and protective clothing, travel, placement expenses and insurance are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, accreditation or recognition record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)