ANS Careers
This professional creates rations for animals based on their individual nutritional needs.
What is a nutritionist?
This occupational category includes people who perform research to improve the competitive position of the animal industry in the United States.
What are scientists, engineers, and related specialists?
This degree is usually conferred after completing a two-year degree program.
What is an associate degree?
This part of agricultural education allows students to explore agricultural interests and develop employability skills through real-world experiences.
What is Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)?
This type of SAE is based on exploring passions and career interests and can develop into an Immersion SAE.
What is a Foundational SAE?
This licensed medical professional treats, cures, and prevents illness and injury in animals.
What is a veterinarian?
This occupational category provides preventive and therapeutic medical treatment to animals.
What are medical specialists?
This degree generally requires four years of college or university study.
What is a bachelor's degree?
This is the digital platform used to maintain SAE records, reflect on skill development, and transition records into FFA awards and applications.
What is the Agricultural Experience Tracker (AET)?
This type of Immersion SAE places a student in a paid or volunteer employment setting where the student performs tasks necessary for the business.
What is a Placement/Internship SAE?
This professional selects and breeds animals to produce offspring with desired characteristics.
What is an animal breeder?
This occupational category uses communication and technology skills to trade animal-related products.
What are marketing, merchandising, and sales representatives?
This degree usually requires about two additional years of college after a bachelor's degree and may require a project or thesis.
What is a master's degree?
In this SAE component, the student creates and designs the project based on individualized interests.
What is student-led?
This type of Immersion SAE involves a student operating an individual business that provides goods or services to the marketplace.
What is an Ownership/Entrepreneurship SAE?
This professional examines and provides care to sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife with the goal of returning them to the wild.
What is a wildlife rehabilitator?
This occupational category uses human relations and communication skills to provide economic guidance within the animal industry.
What are managers and financial specialists?
This degree generally requires additional specialization and intense research or scientific experimentation and may require a dissertation.
What is a doctoral degree?
In this SAE component, the agriculture instructor guides project design, implementation, and evaluation.
What is instructor supervised?
This type of Immersion SAE investigates materials, processes, or information to establish new knowledge or validate previous research.
What is a Research SAE?
This professional studies how animals behave and attempts to determine what causes certain behaviors and what factors can cause behavior changes.
What is an animal behaviorist?
This occupational category uses technical skills to produce animals and animal-related products.
What are animal production specialists?
These personal qualifications can help determine whether a person is suited for an animal industry career, including working inside or outside, working alone or in groups, and working with people or animals.
What are skills, personal interests, and qualifications?
These are three benefits students can gain from an SAE: real experience, real earnings, and real employability skills.
What are the benefits of an SAE?
This type of SAE uses the engineering design process to create a new product or service, usually beginning by identifying a need and developing, prototyping, and testing a solution.
What is an Invention SAE?