Academic Programme

Diploma in Animal Health and Production

Selection Criteria

Minimum requirements:

At least 5 Ordinary levels including passes in English language, any Science subject and Mathematics/ a certificate in Agriculture.
Prospective students undergo a three month pre college farm attachment. After the three months of pre college attachment, the students undergo a selection interview.

Note : The pre college attachment is part of the selection process and does not guarantee one a place.

Duration: 3 years (full time), including at least 9 months of industrial attachment in year 2.

Discipline	Number of Modules	Credits
Animal health	13	78
Animal Production	6	36
Agribusiness and farm business	6	36
Specialization/ Niche area	3	36
Farm/ industrial attachment	1	130
Discipline specific research projects	3	18
Min research project	1	12
Research and innovation skills	1	3
Agriculture and environment	1	6
Human health and nutrition	1	3
ICTs and computer applications in agriculture	1	3
Academic and professional communication skills	1	3
Gender and occupational health and safety	1	3
Governance, ethics, and heritage studies	1	3
Total		360

Modules according to disciplines

Animal Health	Animal Production	Agribusiness and Farm Management	Specialization/ niche area	Soft skills (cross-cutting modules)
Pathology	Principles of animal science	Agricultural economics	Fish production	ICTs and computer applications in agriculture
Diagnosis of diseases	Range land, wildlife management, and aquaculture	Farm business and entrepreneurship	Fish health	Human health and nutrition
Diseases of ruminants	Small stock production	Agricultural extension	Fish processing and marketing	Research and innovation skills
Diseases of non-ruminants	Animal breeding and animal health	Farm budgeting and project development	Reproductive technologies (Artificial insemination, embryo transfer)	Academic and professional communication skills
Epidemiology and disease surveillance	Beef production and abattoir science	Land use planning		Agriculture and environment
Immunology and Vaccination	Dairy science and technology	Agribusiness and farm management project		Gender and occupational health and safety
Parasitology	Animal production research project			Governance, ethics and heritage studies
Ethics, animal welfare and ethology
Laboratory science and clinical pathology
Veterinary public health and food hygiene
Pharmacology, ethnos medicines and toxicology
Companion and nonfood animals
Professional jurisprudence and ethics
Animal health research project

Opportunities after getting the diploma

Employment opportunities	Opportunities for further study
Government departments as extension officers	BSc Animal Health and Production
Research institutions as technicians	BSc Animal Science
Commercial farms as farm managers	BSc Veterinary Science
Agro industries as sales reps	BSc Biotechnology
Ministry of education as agriculture teachers	BSc Wildlife management and Ecology
Non governmental organizations	BSc Dairy Production and Technology
Self employment through entrepreneurship	BSc Animal nutrition
Consultants	BSc Meat Science and Technology
Laboratory technicians