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Apply today to ensure your spot! Register for a single course, apply for the Poultry Certificate with Health Focus, or create your plan for a comprehensive Master's degree. Follow the instructions below, and email our team at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Single Courses
If you are interested in taking one Poultry Health course, choose the appropriate application below to apply.
POUL 5101- Living in a microbial world and raising animals: the poultry perspective, 3 credits, A-F
POUL 5102- How safe is your chicken? Food safety from a poultry perspective, 3 credits, A-F
POUL 5103- Poultry biosecurity: framework for healthy production, 3 credits, A-F
Non-UMN Students: Apply here
Current UMN Students: Apply here
Poultry Certificate: Health Focus
The Poultry Certificate: Health Focus delivers real-world skills needed to advance your career in the government sector, nonprofit agencies, international organizations, and corporations, with a focus on updated research.
Whether you are a career starter, seeking career advancement or a career change, the Poultry Certificate allows students to take individual courses or apply to the entire program to earn the Graduate Poultry Health Certificate.
You will further your disciplinary expertise with classes offered by faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences, and the School of Public Health. You will also gain valuable professional leadership and technical skills.
- Use this link to start your application (you will see "Graduate Application;" this is the right place, even if you are undergraduate.)
- To identify the correct program, input the following details on the program selection page:
- University of Minnesota campus: University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
- College/school: Veterinary Medicine
- Program: Poultry Health- Post-Bacc Certificate
- Click "continue" and complete your application.
- The program admissions team will review your application and contact you with any questions.
- Once your application is approved, a personal link will be provided to finalize registration.
Master of Applied Poultry Sciences (MSAPS)
The Master of Applied Poultry Sciences (MSAPS) delivers the real-world skills needed to advance your career in the government sector, nonprofit agencies, international organizations, and corporations, with a focus on updated research coupled with the ability to create your own hands-on project.
Whether you are seeking career advancement or a career change, the MSAPS program allows you to more fully engage with real-world applied and molecular research practices, contributing to the research and development framework of your organization at all levels.
You will further your disciplinary expertise with classes offered by faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences, and the School of Public Health. You will also gain valuable applied professional leadership and technical skills.
- Use this link to start your application.
- Minimum requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited post-secondary US institution of its foreign equivalent.
- An undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.00.
- Fall semester deadline: April 15 (flexibility upon request possible).
- Spring semester deadline: October 15 (flexibility upon request possible).
For more information on the M.S. Degree in Applied Poultry Science, please visit the Department of Animal Science graduate application website. (Link: https://ansci.umn.edu/graduate/prospective-graduate-student)
Master of Professional Studies in Applied Sciences Leadership (CCAPS)
The Master of Professional Studies in Applied Sciences Leadership delivers the real-world skills needed to advance your career in the government sector, nonprofit agencies, international organizations, and corporations.
Whether you are seeking career advancement or a career change, this Master of Professional Studies in Applied Sciences Leadership program allows you to more fully engage with applied science leadership practices.
You will further your disciplinary expertise with classes offered by faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences, and the School of Public Health. You will also gain valuable applied professional leadership and technical skills.
- Use this link to start your application.
- Minimum requirements: Bachelors degree from an accredited post-secondary US institution of its foreign equivalent.
- An undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.00.
- Fall semester deadline: July
- Spring semester deadline: November
For more information on the M.S. Degree in Applied Poultry Science, please visit the College of Continuing & Professional Studies (CCAPS) website.