The better schools are China Agricultural University, Huazhong Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University, Yangzhou University, Jilin University and Northeast Agricultural University.

Veterinary specialty refers to the specialty engaged in animal disease prevention and diagnosis. The main task is to study and implement the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, quarantine and health inspection of livestock and poultry diseases. With the expansion of animal husbandry in China, there are more and more employees in animal husbandry workplaces. Animal husbandry and veterinary specialty, once considered as "unpopular enrollment", has now become a new growth point in the job market, and some higher vocational colleges even have the phenomenon that many enterprises compete to book graduates of animal husbandry and veterinary specialty.

The major of animal science was merged from animal husbandry and veterinary medicine (part), animal bees (part), animal nutrition and feed processing when the Ministry of Education adjusted this major from 65438 to 0998.

It is mainly set up by agricultural colleges or comprehensive universities (Zhejiang University, Yangzhou University and Yanbian University) and agricultural colleges or animal husbandry and veterinary colleges (departments) of ethnic colleges (northwest and southwest). There are 50 colleges and universities (excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for the time being) offering this major, covering all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and quite a few colleges and universities can recruit students across provinces and regions.

Animal science now includes master's and doctoral programs in animal genetics and breeding, animal nutrition and feed science. According to the statistics of doctoral enrollment in 2000, China Agricultural University, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Northeast China, Nanjing, South China, Central China, Hunan, Guangxi, Gansu Agricultural University and China Academy of Agricultural Sciences have 13 units and 46 doctoral supervisors.

Animal science in China began with the germination of modern higher education in the early 20th century. For example, the Department of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Shi Jing University, established in 1905, offered many courses in animal husbandry, and the Ministry of Education1921approved the establishment of animal husbandry specialty. Since then, agricultural colleges or animal husbandry and veterinary colleges have generally set up animal husbandry disciplines to carry out teaching and scientific research.

After the founding of New China, relatively speaking, China Agricultural University, Northwest A&F University, Northeast Agricultural University, Sichuan Agricultural University, Gansu Agricultural University and Nanjing Agricultural University established relatively strong animal husbandry disciplines through the adjustment of departments in the 1950s, and these institutions also obtained the authorization of master's and doctor's degrees earlier.

At present, the development of animal husbandry to facility animal husbandry, on the one hand, puts forward higher requirements for higher animal science education in quantity and quality; On the other hand, the breakthrough development of life sciences such as asexual reproduction (cloning technology), human genome project and transgenic animals has injected high-tech vitality into animal science.

And will promote the rapid development of animal science specialty. It is the development of society and animal husbandry that lays the foundation for higher animal husbandry education, which will greatly promote the prosperity and development of animal husbandry.