Facilities
The Faculty of Veterinary Science is situated at Onderstepoort in the north of Pretoria which is a property of 65 hectares. Onderstepoort is a generic name for a hub of three institutions in the vicinity, namely the Faculty, Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI). All three institutions are independent. The Onderstepoort campus of the University some 30 km north west of the main campus in Hatfield and some 15 km due north of the city center of Pretoria (Tshwane).
The buildings on the Onderstepoort campus cover a total of 55 000 m^2 and consist of the following:
- The Arnold Theiler building
- The Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH)
- Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases and support services of the central Department of Education Innovation
- Department of Anatomy and Physiology (sections of Anatomy and Histology, including electron microscopy)
- Departments of Anatomy and Physiology (section of Physiology), Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies
- Department of Production Animal Studies
- Department of Paraclinical Sciences (sections of Veterinary Public Health and Pathology)
- Equine Research Centre
- Camps, paddocks and animal handling facilities (including a small dairy) managed by the Onderstepoort Animal Teaching Unit (OTAU)
- Residence annexes
- Student residence and associated sports fields
- Biomedical Research Centre (UPBRC)
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