What is VetCAMP?
VetCAMP (Veterinary Career Aptitude and Mentoring Program) is an intensive weeklong summer program for high school students (10th – 12th grade AND must be 16 years old by the start date of the summer camp) at the UGA campus in Athens. Established in 2011, UGA VetCAMP was the first pre-vet summer camps established among the veterinarian schools and colleges in the US. At VetCAMP, students experience veterinary medicine – and will be involved in activities aimed at evaluating their skills and competitiveness as future veterinarians. The week is filled with visits and hands-on learning at our veterinary teaching hospital, diagnostic labs, and the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center — and highlighted by a behind-the-scenes tour of a veterinary medicine field trip. In addition, campers learn about what vet school is all about – from admissions to classes, to the wide variety of career paths veterinary medicine has to offer! Applicants must be from the United States.
UGA VetCAMP 2026 will be hosted May 31 – June 6, 2026.
The application period for VetCAMP 2026 is open from June 25, 2025 – January 20, 2026.
ALL Applicants will be notified of decisions (accepted, waitlisted, non-selected) via email by Friday, February 6, 2026 (at the latest). Please make sure the student’s primary email and optional secondary email is typed carefully and accurately since our office will use both emails to share decision statuses with ALL students. Please google steps to make sure vetcamp@uga.edu is added to your email contacts and/or not sent to spam folders. If a student does NOT hear about their decision status by or before February 6. 2026, the email may have been incorrectly typed or sent to spam
