Maintaining student safety during the COVID pandemic is the College’s top priority. Faculty prioritized flexibility by offering learning experiences in various formats to help protect the safety and health of all students, faculty, and staff. Some classes are online, some are in person, and some are a blend.

The College welcomed 105 students to its DVM program. The incoming DVM Class of 2024 is composed of 91 self-identified females and 14 self-identified males.

Selecting the DVM Class of 2025 will include virtual interviews. Applications from 923 prospective students were received. Of these, 137 candidates applied both to the CVM and to our new regional partner, South Dakota State University, which will enroll an inaugural cohort of 20 students in fall of 2021 for the first two years of training before transfer to the CVM for their final years of training.

The College’s graduate programs are welcoming nine students over the course of the academic year. Three of them are enrolled in the Comparative and Molecular Biosciences program and six are in the Veterinary Medicine program. More than 85 students are currently enrolled in the College’s graduate programs.

Admissions closed earlier this summer for the DVM Master’s of Public Health program, which is offered jointly with the University's School of Public Health. Twenty-nine new students joined the program from seven different veterinary schools.