Ever wanted to be a veterinarian? Now there’s going to be a place in Arizona for you to get your degree.

The Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine will be the first and only school offering the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) in the state of Arizona. The new program plans to welcome its inaugural class of 100 students in the Fall of 2014.

Midwestern University, which already has a large campus in Glendale, offers medical education for doctors and other health care providers.

Midwestern says the program will be especially welcome in Arizona where there is one vet per 4,100 animals; the national average is one vet per 3,500 animals. There is real shortage of vets in Arizona’s rural counties and there is an expected national vet shortage.

Sounds like a really promising career for an animal lover.

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