Agriculture is a back bone of Ethiopian economy, in which about livestock sector accounts for about 40% of the country's agricultural GDP, 15% of the national GDP and 31% of the total agricultural employment. However, the sector constrained by unimproved genetic resource, inadequate animal nutrition, high prevalence of diseases, poor breeding, poor management of stock and feed resources, inadequate livestock services and infrastructure, uncoordinated development program, absence of appropriate policies and inadequate number of qualified manpower.

In line with the government policy the development of human resource in the area of animal science to alleviate the pervasive manpower shortage in the country is crucial for all our society to produce professionals, scientists and experts those do research for solving the problem of feed shortage, poor animal genetic resource, and animal health in universities. Hence, Department of Animal Science of Debre Berhan University opened in 2000 E.C with the following missions and visions:

The vision of the department of Animal sciences is to be center of excellence in producing human resource and knowledge in Animal sciences.

The mission of the department of animal science is to produce qualified and self-employed professionals in the field of animal sciences through quality education both in theory and practical.