The Department of Animal Sciences and Industry offers undergraduate students the opportunity to specialize in one of five areas: Animal Products, Business, Communications, Livestock Production and Management, and Science (which includes Pre-veterinary Medicine). In addition, graduate student specializations are available in each of the major discipline areas present in the department. Currently, the department is staffed by over 40 faculty in the assistant, associate and full professor ranks and over 25 instructors and/or research assistants representing the disciplines of behavior, health & welfare, breeding & genetics, food science, meat science, monogastric nutrition, physiology, and ruminant nutrition. Teaching, research, and extension programs address most major food animal species in addition to horses and other companion animals. The department is home to over 125 graduate students and over 650 undergraduate students divided among traditional animal and food science curriculums.