The website of the Department of Animal Science and Production at University College Dublin. The Department of of Animal Science is located in the Faculty of Agriculture on the Belfied Campus of UCD.

The aim of this College is to encourage farm families and their inheritors to engage in agricultural education programmes. Our objective is to develop young people, and through them to improve the adoption of products, processes and systems to improve farm incomes. We achieve our objectives through our training programmes which include: National Certificate in Agriculture (FETAC), Advanced Certificate in Dairy Herd Management (FETAC), Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture (HETAC), Range of part-time courses.

The Faculty of Food Science and Technology has a history of almost a hundred years of third level education and research in Dairy and Food Sciences. The Faculty is today one of the largest multidisciplinary educational and research institutions in the World covering all areas of Food Sciences. You are warmly welcome to our website and we hope that you will find the contents informative and useful.

We are a centre of training for Farmers, Mechanics, Salespeople for the Agricultural and Farm Machinery Industries. Three full time courses are offered here at Pallaskenry: Vocational Certificate in Agriculture (FETAC), Advanced Certificate in Farm Machinery (FETAC), National Certificate in Technology in Agricultural Mechanisation (HETAC).