The Graduate Program in Animal Science (PGCA), from Federal Rural University of Semi-arid (UFERSA), campus Mossoró, RN, was created at a master’s level in 2006 and at doctoral level in 2010 with the purpose of providing subsidies to clarify and solve problems found in the Semi-arid Region of Northeast, Brazil. That way, also professionals for teaching at a higher level, aiming at supplying country’s demand for qualified professionals to the development of teaching and/or research activities..