It is located within The National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom, Jos South LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria.
The School has the credit of being the first Higher Institution in West Africa to produce graduate Veterinary Surgeons long before the first University was established in Nigeria, at Ibadan in 1948.
The school also played a key role, especially between 1947 and 1962, in training middle-level veterinary manpower for other African Countries, notably the Cameroons, Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ethiopia and Sudan.
However, with the approval granted to the College by the NBTE in 1989 and 1992, for National Diploma (ND) programmes in Animal Health and Production and the Higher National Diploma (HND) in Animal Health respectively a set of students were enrolled.
[1] The College is located in Vom, a quiet rocky village in Plateau State, and situated 1,285 metres above sea level.