How to become a Veterinarian
Official title: Veterinarians
Prevents, diagnoses and treats disease in animals, or carries out animal quarantine and disease control.
Main tasks
- Diagnose, treat and test animals for disease, and issue certificates
- Perform surgery on animals
- Carry out animal quarantine, health care and vaccination, and report outbreaks of infectious animal disease to the authorities
- Carry out hygiene inspections at livestock and poultry slaughterhouses
Ways in
- University department: Veterinary & Animal Science degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Taiwan
- Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a veterinarian you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 獸醫師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 5.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$660,000 a year
- Demand for Health and care jobs is projected at about 774,000 in 2024 and about 876,000 in 2030. (+13.2%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Veterinarian?
Ways in include: Veterinary & Animal Science degrees.
How much does a Veterinarian earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$660,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Veterinarian a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Veterinarian?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026