💼 What happens to veterinary graduates?

The question missing everywhere else. We compiled 39 schools from official reports in 12 countries — AlmaLaurea 🇮🇹, HESA/RCVS 🇬🇧, SIIU 🇪🇸, HEA 🇮🇪, OBSVET 🇧🇪, KVL 🇨🇿, HZZ 🇭🇷, CMVR 🇷🇴, UP 🇿🇦, aggregated ENV 🇫🇷 and more. Every figure carries a clickable source and a verification date.

3 findings that change the decision

Brutal salary gap Italy/UK

A new Italian graduate earns ~€1,500 NET/month at 1 year (Milano, Padova). Their British peer earns ~€2,900 GROSS/month (RVC, Bristol). The net-vs-gross difference only explains part — Italy pays 40% less early-career. It catches up by year 5.

50% of Walloon vets leave the profession

The OBSVET study published February 2025 reveals that 50% of young Walloon vets abandon practice within 5 years. It is the best-documented attrition rate in Europe. The July 2026 Wallonia plan (€680k) attempts to reverse the trend, especially in rural practice (<10% of choices).

Public vs private ES: double the odds

Spanish public schools place 75% of their graduates at 4 years (SIIU 2024). Private schools: 51%. Champion UAB Barcelona: 83%. Bottom CEU-UCH private: 34%. Massive gap rarely shown on brochures.

📊 The 39-school table

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School	Country	Employment	Salary	Satisfaction	Data	Profile
University of Liège — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇧🇪 BE	—	—	—	6	Open →
University of Veterinary Sciences Brno — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟡	🇨🇿 CZ	—	—	—	2	Open →
CEU Cardenal Herrera University 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	4	Open →
Complutense University of Madrid — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	27 384 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2020	—	3	Open →
University of Extremadura 🟡	🇪🇸 ES	—	26 015 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2019	—	4	Open →
University of León 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	3	Open →
University of Murcia 🟡	🇪🇸 ES	—	26 262 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2020	—	3	Open →
Autonomous University of Barcelona — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	28 351 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2020	—	3	Open →
Alfonso X el Sabio University 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	2	Open →
Catholic University of Murcia 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	3	Open →
University of Córdoba — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟡	🇪🇸 ES	—	30 408 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2019	—	4	Open →
Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Mártir" 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	2	Open →
European University of Madrid 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	—	—	2	Open →
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 🟡	🇪🇸 ES	—	24 837 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2019	—	3	Open →
University of Zaragoza — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇪🇸 ES	—	19 551 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2020	—	5	Open →
University of Santiago de Compostela 🟡	🇪🇸 ES	—	26 919 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2019	—	3	Open →
National Veterinary Schools of France (ENV) — Post-Bac entry 🟡	🇫🇷 FR	97,4% 1 year	—	—	7	Open →
University of Bristol 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	93% high skilled 15 months	3 000 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2023	—	4	Open →
University of Cambridge 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	3 450 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2017	—	3	Open →
Harper & Keele Veterinary School (Harper Adams University + Keele University) 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	—	—	3	Open →
University of Liverpool 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	3 067 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2022	—	4	Open →
University of Nottingham 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	3 163 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2022	—	4	Open →
Royal Veterinary College (University of London) 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	2 917 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2023	—	3	Open →
University of Surrey 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	3 354 EUR/month (gross) cohorte 2022	—	4	Open →
University of Lancashire (formerly University of Central Lancashire / UCLan) 🟢	🇬🇧 GB	—	—	—	1	Open →
University of Zagreb — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇭🇷 HR	—	—	—	5	Open →
University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest 🟡	🇭🇺 HU	—	—	—	1	Open →
University College Dublin 🟡	🇮🇪 IE	—	32 548 EUR/year (gross) cohorte 2021	—	2	Open →
University of Bari Aldo Moro — Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	82,4% 1 year	1 295 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	10	Open →
University of Bologna — Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	81,1% 1 year	1 470 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	8	Open →
University of Camerino — Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	84% 1 year	1 376 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	8	Open →
University of Messina — Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	81,5% 1 year	1 272 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	10	Open →
University of Milan (La Statale) 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	84,8% 1 year	1 639 EUR/month (net) cohorte 2024	7,8/10	10	Open →
University of Naples Federico II 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	82,6% 1 year	1 139 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	7	Open →
University of Padua 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	87,5% 1 year	1 509 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	8	Open →
University of Parma 🟢	🇮🇹 IT	95,5% 1 year	1 292 EUR/month cohorte 2024	—	8	Open →
USAMV Cluj-Napoca — Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 🟢	🇷🇴 RO	—	—	—	2	Open →
University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice 🔴	🇸🇰 SK	—	—	—	1	Open →
University of Pretoria — Faculty of Veterinary Science (Onderstepoort) 🟢	🇿🇦 ZA	—	25 000 ZAR/month (gross) cohorte 2025	—	7	Open →

Confidence legend: 🟢 primary official source · 🟡 press citing primary source · 🔴 proxy or self-declared. Click a school name for all figures with sources.

⚠️ What we cannot tell you (and why)

UK sector split per school: RCVS 2024 gives a national aggregate (52% clinical practice for new grads) but no per-school breakdown. No public source lets us say "Bristol graduates lean equine while Nottingham leans small-animal".
UCLan Lancashire and Harper & Keele: too new. Harper & Keele's pioneer cohort graduated July 2025 — first HESA at 15 months due late 2026 at earliest. UCLan still awaiting RCVS accreditation.
Košice, Budapest, Cluj, Brno: employment reports exist (DPR Hungary, KVL Czech, CMVR Romania) but stay largely internal or fragmentary. We surface verifiable contextual indicators — no more.
Bologna Vet Med: AlmaLaurea used to suppress uni-specific data (N<5). Our 2nd pass (via Trasparenza codicione 0370107304300001) recovered 8 HIGH-confidence metrics — the school is finally in the table.
Satisfaction in general: few countries measure it comparably. AlmaLaurea gives a /10 score, the UK uses NSS (%), Spain nothing. We show what exists without arbitrary conversion.

Companion tools

📊 Compare schools39 schools side by side on admission, cost, structure — the "before study" companion to this page. 🎯 Application strategy3 candidate profiles with target school lists and EU-recognition warnings. 📚 Vet programmesWhat you actually study year by year — to understand which curriculum leads where.

Our principle

All these data exist — they are just scattered across 12 official bodies. Our work = compile, source, date. We invent no number. When data is missing we write "no public report" rather than fudge a proxy. It is the only way to stay credible.

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