About Animal Behaviour, Bsc in University of Aberdeen

Animal Behaviour is an interdisciplinary degree and field of science that examines the interactions between behaviour and biology. An organism’s evolutionary history and current environmental conditions drive behaviour, and feedback from behavioural decisions in turn drives evolutionary processes.

Our Animal Behaviour degree differs from our Zoology degree in that it includes courses from Psychology in the first two years. It also differs from the Behavioural Biology degree as this programme focuses more on the organism as a whole and less on neuroscience.

What You'll Study

Each year you take a selection of compulsory courses and optional courses that can be chosen from those on offer across the institution. The first two years lay a foundation for the more specialised third and fourth years.

Why Study Animal Behaviour?

• Unique programme offering study in the fields of biology and psychology – understand behaviour from all angles: evolution, development, mechanisms and adaptive significance.
• Teaching from researchers in biology and psychology gives access to the cutting edge of both subject areas.
• Academic and transferrable skills are built in to the learning experience to maximise employability.
• Links with the Edinburgh Zoo provide an unrivalled opportunity to directly interact with a diverse range of animal species.
• In the REF 2014, the University of Aberdeen was 15th across the UK in Biological Sciences for research impact and 1st in the UK for Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science. (Times Higher Education rankings by subject for REF 2014.)
• You will have the opportunity to get involved in our research through summer research assistantships, project work and a compulsory final year research project.
• We host regular careers events, where you will have the opportunity to listen to and meet prospective employers from outside the University, giving you excellent opportunities to get a fulfilling and challenging job in a biological field.

Careers

Graduates in Animal Behaviour can expect employment opportunities in industries such as pharmaceuticals and applied medicine, conservation and natural resource management, education and research, marketing, social media and software development, and business.

This degree may also be a good choice as a pre-medical degree programme for international students interested in medicine, veterinary science or dentistry. Interdisciplinarity is one of the key graduate attributes you will achieve with this degree. Regardless of the career(s) you will consider after your degree, this skill is highly sought by employers and rarely obtained at the undergraduate level.

Recent graduate employers include:

• Fife Council
• Lanta Animal Welfare
• The Slovak Wildlife Society

Academic qualification equivalents

• At Standard XII a minimum percentage of 75% overall. Additionally, a minimum percentage of 80% in English at Standard XII or our normal English language requirements.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS    : Overall - 6.0,   with: Listening - 5.5; Reading - 5.5; Speaking - 5.5; Writing - 6.0
• TOEFL  : Overall - 78,     with: Listening - 17; Reading - 18; Speaking - 20; Writing - 21
• PTE       : Overall - 54,    with: Listening - 51; Reading - 51; Speaking - 51; Writing - 54

University of Aberdeen Highlights

University of Aberdeen Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

Aberdeen manages to provide a fixed fee structure throughout the program for international students so that they can project the amount in advance.

• The undergraduate arts fee starts from £17,200 and for sciences, it’s around £19,700.
• The postgraduate fee is variable and depends upon the degree chosen and discount of around 20% can be availed by Alumni of college
• For Undergraduate arts degree annual fee is of £ 17,200 which adds up for £68,800 and for engineering it is £19,700 and a total of £78,800.
• As per the calculation done by college the minimum cost of living in the U.K which covers all the basic expenses is around £1,000.

Aberdeen University Cost of Attendance

Aberdeen manages to provide a fixed fee structure throughout the program for international students so that they can project the amount in advance. Details for 2021-2022 academic session are tabulated below: