Kentucky Veterinary Education for AY 2024/2025 Fact Sheet
Since 1951, the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine has continuously provided an outstanding veterinary education to Kentucky students through the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The college’s goal is to maintain this partnership for the long-term and to add value by being responsive to veterinary needs in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The existing agreement among the Commonwealth of Kentucky, SREB and Auburn University allows 152 Kentucky residents to attend the Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine while paying in-state tuition and fees. This represents a tuition savings of approximately $25,500 per year or $102,100 for the complete DVM program. Today, approximately twenty-four percent of veterinarians licensed to practice in Kentucky received their veterinary degree from Auburn.
Auburn veterinary students frequently return to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for summer experiences, two- week externships during the clinical year, and preceptorships
Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine
(eight-week capstone experiences at the end of the professional program).
During the spring of 2024, 28 Kentucky practices hosted Auburn students for their preceptorship experiences. During the spring of 2025, 21 Kentucky practices hosted Auburn students for these experiences. Through funding from the college, the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association (KVMA) and the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund (KADF), 4 additional students completed funded summer clinical experiences.
In 2022, Auburn students formed a student chapter of the KVMA, which had 96 members at the end of the last academic year. Through a USDA NIFA grant, eight chapter members served as mentors to 20 Kentucky high school students interested in veterinary medicine and accompanied them to the 2023 and 2024 annual KVMA meetings, the 2024 Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association meeting, and on weekend experiences at the college.
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