This four-year course is the only dedicated degree of its kind in the UK. It is in partnership with Oxford Brookes and Abingdon and Witney College, with teaching mainly at Oxford Brookes, but also some sessions at Witney Campus and the college's stud farm. Since the farm runs as a racehorse stud producing youngstock for the thoroughbred sales, you have the opportunity to gain real-life commercial experience and to benefit from its facilities. Considerable input from external practitioners and a third-year work placement year make this a highly vocational course.

This course will equip you for a variety of roles in research, business and industry. Contacts made in the industry placement and specialisation in Years 3 and 4 will help to determine your career path. Recent graduates have secured roles at Coolmore Stud in Australia, Dalham Hall Stud in the UK, Newbury racecourse, the British Horseracing Authority and various non-thoroughbred enterprises. Others have secured roles in owner services at Weatherbys, gained entry into veterinary colleges or continued in higher education with a Veterinary Physiotherapy MSc, for example, or other postgraduate options such as PhDs or MBAs. Other potential destinations include careers as equine scientists, yard managers, insurance agents, bloodstock agents, trainee accountants, nutritionists, journalists, facility managers and equine business advisers, and roles in nominations sales and pharmaceutical sales, as well as non-equine marketing and HR positions.