Check the course catalog for the school, and see if they have a major for “animal sciences”. You can also go in undecided/undeclared, and this is usually a good choice (it makes it easier to switch majors later).

PhD is one of the highest degrees you can earn, but you have to complete your Bachelor’s degree first, so don’t worry about that yet. The degree you really need is “DVM” – Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. This makes you a “pet doctor” just like MD makes you a human doctor.

You don’t need to take biology or chemistry to become a vet like most people assume. There are only a handful of courses required to get into vet school, along with a good GPA, usually around a 3.0 or higher. So my advice is to pick a major that interests you, and then somewhere on the application there should be an option for pre-professional sutdies such as pre-med, law. If there isn’t one for vets don’t worry just speak to an advisor/counsler at your new college during registration. They should lead you in the right direction, but you should also find out for yourself the requirements. A biology or a chemistry major is usually very difficult and if you’re not good at it your gpa will suffer. Which is why I suggest something you like/ are good at.

A PhD is a “a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study”. It doesn’t have to do with you becoming a veterinarian. You have to go to veterinary school for that. Which usually takes around four years to complete.

If you definetly can’t pick a major just yet, you can also pick Liberal Arts, which basically has everything included in it. However, make sure that by the end of your Sophmore year you have a good idea of a more stable major. Then change it for your remaining two years. That’s what I’m doing, it gave me a good insight into other areas of study, because of it’s broadness.

Ph.D. stands for Doctor of Philosophy are represents the completion of high level of study in an academic area – i.e., chemistry, math, economics.

M.D. is doctor of medicine and J.D. (law) is Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Getting a Ph.D. would be a waste of time for being a vet. You would most likely go to veterinarian school after completing a 4-year degree. A Ph.D. can require up to 4-10 years of additional study beyond an undergraduate degre.

Good choices might be zoology, biology, chemistry for undergraduate majors. However, you just need to satisfy the requirements for entrance to veterinarian school so possibly you could major in anything. Furthermore, the 4-year undergraduate degree is not required at all vet schools.

http://www.aavmc.org/vmcas/documents/Auburn2008_000.pdf

Notice that while it is not required, the majority have undergraduate degrees for Auburn in particular.

Here is some more information. You should look into and read about the different programs:

http://www.aavmc.org/students_admissions/vet_schools.htm

No matter what degree you take, there will be certain humanities “core classes” that you will need. Sometimes, however (at least at my school) they are different for the different college departments (i.e. college of liberal arts requires certain things, college of sciences another) so you should have some idea — science or humanities, etc. Find out what these required classes are at your school in your program. But generally, can’t go wrong with english, a literature class, and I think most colleges do a year of foreign language. Public speaking is probably good to take for most majors. It’s best to just take the basic classes and get them out of the way if you aren’t sure what you want to do (even if you are sure, you might change your mind, like I did, later on!) So just do basic stuff until you have a better feel for what you want to do. Keep your schedule as light as you can for your first year and utilize extra time to maybe attend open-lectures (most universities have them often) and see what you’re interested in. That’s my advice. (and yes, you choose your classes — they don’t really “give” you any — but there are usually certain ones that are required for all degrees as I said before lol. Sorry if this was confusing, hope it helped you in some way 🙂 Also, if you intend to live on campus, I’d advise getting to know your roomate well and setting “rules of conduct” with eachother concerning things such as visitor frequency, music, overnight guests, etc etc right from the beginning. Otherwise you might end up with a not-so-cool roomate situation. (again, I’m speaking from experience here…) Have fun in college! It’s WAAAAAY better than HS, I found. 🙂

PHD is the highest degree u can obtain when going to school first the AA OR AS then BA or BS then ur Masters then ur Phd which doesn’t neccessarily mean being a doctor but for starting out you would want to have the neccessary background in science and building up to all them college level requirements like some math or history course so start with whatever ur comfortable with and then work ur way up …

PHD is just saying that you went to more school. First you go to college, then graduate school, and then more school. It has nothing to do with being a vet. Talk to your guidance counselor they will straighten you out and even help with the college application.

Put undecided or even one of the sciences or business or ???- you can have any undergrad as long as you have the required science courses. You should have a back up major any way