Undergraduate veterinary students looking at an equine cadaver leg in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonington

Vet medicine: facilities

Modern, purpose-built facilities to help you get the most from your course.

Our beautiful 1000-acre Sutton Bonington campus is the perfect place to study veterinary medicine.

There’s a huge range of specialist facilities - from a dairy farm and working abattoir, to clinical skills labs - so you can get hands-on experience and gain the skills you need.

What's on offer?

Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

In 2024 we opened our new £3 million Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre for small animal clinical teaching. There is a full practice area, general teaching spaces, and dedicated areas for both small animals and larger livestock.

For final year, there's a new mock practice building which is set up like a hospital. It's got surgeries, a dispensary, consulting rooms, a prep area. They set up scenarios and you’ve got to work things out. It’s a really good way of teaching because you are actually doing the job.

Katie Siddons

Teaching facilities

Lecture theatre and large seminar room
Small-group teaching rooms used for group work and private study
Research facilities and laboratories
STEM lab

One of the things about Nottingham is that we really are practical from day one. You will be here in prelim year, in first year, right the way through until fourth year, before you go out on rotations.

Niamh Dinne-Mason

Clinical facilities

A large anatomy laboratory
Surgery suite for smaller group work
A clinical skills laboratory, for practical work with live animals
Dissection suite, for practicals with cadaver material and specimens
Clinical skills rooms
Animal facilities including kennels for teaching dogs (who belong to the staff!)

Other facilities

16 stables for veterinary student horses*
An indoor menage and a final year farm and equine study centre
Exotic smallholding, housing reptiles
Farm smallholding with cows, sheep and pigs
Poultry area
Dairy Farm (Centre for Excellence in Livestock)
Working abattoir

*You may bring a horse, if there is room in our school stables. Your horse must be suitable for use in equine practicals. Stables are offered on a first-come first-served basis. Livery costs from £22 per week, dependent on season.

Facilities images (10)

Undergraduate student looking after horses in the menage located in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

Undergraduate veterinary students examining a dog's eyes in the Clinical Skills lab, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonnington campus

Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

Undergraduate students examining cows at the Vet School farm, Sutton Bonington campus

Undergraduate student holding a corn snake in the vet school exotic smallholding hands-on practical

Assistant Professor teaching university undergraduates how to examine a sheep

Undergraduate veterinary students using an endoscopy training simulator in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonnington campus

Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

Farm and Equine Teaching Facility, Sutton Bonington campus

Undergraduate veterinary students looking at an anatomical teaching cat model in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonington campus

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Undergraduate student looking after horses in the menage located in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

Undergraduate veterinary students examining a dog's eyes in the Clinical Skills lab, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonnington campus

Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

Undergraduate students examining cows at the Vet School farm, Sutton Bonington campus

Undergraduate student holding a corn snake in the vet school exotic smallholding hands-on practical

Assistant Professor teaching university undergraduates how to examine a sheep

Undergraduate veterinary students using an endoscopy training simulator in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonnington campus

Sir Peter Rubin Veterinary Education Centre

Farm and Equine Teaching Facility, Sutton Bonington campus

Undergraduate veterinary students looking at an anatomical teaching cat model in the Surgery Suite, Clinical Building, Sutton Bonington campus

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Katie's student experience

Katie is a final-year Veterinary Medicine and Surgery BVMBVS with BVMedSci student. She explains why she chose Nottingham, her love of the Sutton Bonington campus, and her future career plans.