Overview
The department of Wildlife and Zoo in the faculty of veterinary medicine at Suez Canal University is a unique specialty among all faculties of veterinary medicine in Egypt. This department deals with the care and medicine of wild animals, the conservation of wildlife, and protected areas. Our mission is to graduate distinguished and scientifically qualified veterinarians to work in wildlife, zoos, nature preserves, and wildlife offices at airports and ports.
The department provides a unique program in Wildlife and Zoo (WZM) applying credit hours by ministerial decree No (1859) on 29/6/2020. The program is considered unique among all Egyptian universities and the Middle East, specializing in studying the care and medicine of wild animals and birds, Biodiversity, Protected areas, and Zoo Management.
Also, it Provides Diplomas, MS, and Ph.D. for post-graduate students.
Mission
The department aims to prepare expert and qualified veterans, to work in the wildlife field, Zoos, nature preserves, and wildlife offices in airports and ports.
Vision
We are targeting to expand our activities, to include all Egyptian universities and the Arab nations, in addition, to participating and competing internationally.
Goals
- Participating in preparing a veteran on a high level, enables him\her to deal with different kinds of problems in the field concerning humans and animals.
- To educate senior students on wildlife courses and zoos.
- To participate in preparing scientific cadres, on a high technical level able to:
- Work in natural preserves and fulfilled all rules of natural preserves and environment.
- Work in zoos and the ability to diagnose animals, wild birds, and reptiles diseases and ways of treatment.
- Work in the office of wildlife in Airports and Ports.
- Acknowledge the basics of establishing natural preserves and zoos and how to manage them.
Contact us
Address: Ismailia- Egypt- New University Campus- 4.5 K
Head of Wildlife and Zoo Department: Prof. Mohamed Salah El-deen
Tel: 01285094590
E-mail: vetahmedsalah@vet.suez.edu.eg
vetahmedsalah@yahoo.com
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, grants the student Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Education system
1- Learning language along all academic years is English, but in Arabic for University requirements.
2- Bachelor degree period is 6 years.
3- Education system inside the faulty is Credit hours system. Each academic year is divided into two semesters.
4- Student per each semester takes theoretical and practical courses, mentioned in the academic plan of education program.
5- For each course, number of hours are mentioned in education plan.
6- Student is shifted from one year to next year, in case of success in all courses, failure or absence (with or without an excuse) minimum in two courses only.
7- Student who failed in more than two courses, must re-take courses failed in and undergo the exam in the next year.
8- As for senior students who failed in more than two courses, they will take the exam in the 2nd round in September. If they failed in 2nd round exam, Statement Z will be applied on them.
9- In case the student passed in re-taken course, he/she will acquire highest “accepted” grade, if the student is absent with an accepted excuse, he/she will acquire actual grade.
The faculty offers its graduates different degrees to acquire:
- Professional Diploma in Wild life and Zoo
- Master’s degree
- PhD degree
Terms of applying:
- Student applies a request to faculty’s Dean, who shifts him\her to department’s council in charge, as to state research’s topic and program, Finally all documents will be presented to faculty’s council for needed action.
- Research topic is stated before applying at least with two years. Committee is in charge to edit research’s title.
- Faculty’s council is in charge with stopping student’s registration for a period of time, in case of applying an accepted excuse, deprives him\her from education or research completion. This period will not be included with period mentioned in (16) (17) terms.
- Student’s registration is stopped in case:
Supervisor’s report about the student is unsatisfying.
Estimated period is ended and student did not apply the research yet.
If the committee refuses discussing research paper twice.
- Student applies 10 copies of research paper, after being accepted, as to be distributed among committee’s members and faculty’s library.
- The committee is in charge to exchange research paper with other universities.
- Postgraduate research laboratory.
- Wildlife museum.
- Educational Zoo
- Regional Protected Areas Training and Research Center