The Department of Veterinary Medicine was started in the year 1970 at Akola under Post Graduate Institute, DR. PDKV, Akola as one of the faculty of Veterinary Science. Consequent upon the establishment of MAFASU, Nagpur in the year 2000, and this department has emerged under independent Post Graduate Institute of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Akola. Recently institute has been renamed as College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Akola from the academic year 2024-25. This department has an intake capacity of 2 and 2 annually for M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. degree programme, respectively.

Laboratory Facilities in the Department: Department has well equipped clinical diagnostic laboratory with advance diagnostic equipments for testing samples such as blood, serum, faecal, urine, skin scrapings, blood smears, milk and others for diagnosis of diseases.

Diagnostic services offered by the department: This department offers diagnostic services such as laboratory diagnosis, x-ray, USG, ECG and echocardiography examination facility for diagnosis of various diseases in small animals and large animals