Recently, the Ministry of Education has approved SDAU to launch an undergraduate education program in Animal Science in cooperation with the Royal Agricultural University in the UK. This marks a significant breakthrough for our university in Sino-foreign cooperative education in science, engineering, and agriculture, as well as in the cultivation of international talents in modern animal husbandry, and will elevate our university's scale of Sino-foreign cooperative education to the top among national agricultural and forestry universities.

The program will start enrolling students in 2026, with an annual intake of 120 students and a four-year duration. It adopts a 4+0 model and a dual-degree system, where students will study at our university for all four years, with professional core courses taught entirely in English by British faculty. Students who meet the requirements will be awarded degrees from both universities. In terms of the cultivation plan, the first year focuses on general education courses and intensive English training to solidify students' academic and language foundations. In the following three years, the British side will take the lead in professional teaching, covering a wide range of fundamental and cutting-edge courses in multiple fields, along with AI+ interdisciplinary courses. All foreign courses feature a dual teaching support system of foreign faculty instruction + teaching assistant guidance, emphasizing healthy breeding techniques and frontier industrial applications, aiming to cultivate modern agricultural talents with an international perspective, cross-cultural communication skills, and a composite knowledge structure.

It is reported that this program is an important initiative undertaken by the two universities based on their long-term cooperation, actively responding to global changes in the animal husbandry industry and serving the national strategy of building an agricultural powerhouse. Our university will leverage the British side's strengths in interdisciplinary integration and industry-academia-research collaboration in modern animal husbandry to continuously explore new pathways for cultivating talents in new agricultural disciplines, accelerate the construction of a first-class agricultural university, and continuously supply high-end international talents in the field of animal science with both professional expertise and foreign language advantages.