Animal Nutrition Overview

The animal nutrition study area provides students the opportunity to prepare for numerous career opportunities in the growing field of animal nutrition. Students can focus on nutrition for production or companion animals. Students interested in animal nutrition can choose from a number of opportunities available to them in the animal science department. In addition to the nutrition courses taught in the department, students are able to develop topics of study for one of the special problems courses, participate in numerous enterprises, work at the Cal Poly Animal Nutrition Center, and develop a senior project focused on animal nutrition.