Alongside the Faculty of Agronomy and a Ciclo Básico Común branch, FVET occupies the Agronomía campus, a 72-hectare rural enclave in the north-west of Buenos Aires City.

The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences has its origins in the Instituto Superior de Agronomía y Veterinaria, founded on 19 August 1904 through a decree by agriculture minister Wenceslao Escalante, in the aftermath of a cattle Aphthous stomatitis outbreak in Southern Buenos Aires Province.

[2] The institute had its seat in Chacarita, then a mostly rural town in the outskirts of Buenos Aires with ample farmland cultivated by the Society of Jesus.

In its early days, the institute's facilities were precarious and its remote location made it difficult for professionals to access it from the capital city.

Most of the institute's first professors were from Europe, such as Godofredo Cassai, Angel Baldoni and Salvatore Baldasarre (from Italy), Kurt Wolffhugel (from Germany) and Julio Lesage (from France).

[7] The country was at the time under the dictatorship of Alejandro Lanusse, and the government sought to control and placate these protests.

[14] FVET also oversees the Escuela Agropecuaria y Agroalimentaria, one of UBA's five high schools and the only one specialized in agricultural education.

The faculty is headed by a Dean (Spanish: decano or decana), who presides over the Directive Council (Consejo Directivo).