Our curriculum teaches students to holistically integrate the social, technological, economic, and scientific aspects of society with the need to conserve and protect our natural resources and environment for the future. Depending on a student’s career goals, they will choose either a natural resources minor, including nature-based recreation, watershed sciences, or natural resources ecology; or another minor offered on campus, such as business, communications, fisheries, geography, sociology, foreign language, or sustainability. For a hands-on introduction to field work, students in the forestry program spend the summer between their second and third years at our summer practicum program held at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center outside Andalusia, Alabama. In their junior year, students focus on forest biology, land management, and forest products, while in their senior year students are exposed to forest health issues and silvicultural systems. Students complete their last semester with a Senior Capstone Project that ties their previous two years of courses together developing a management plan that is presented to the school faculty and a landowner.

Please, bear in mind that this program isn’t offered for Russian and Azerbaijani citizens. SAT or ACT is required. Moreover, a proof of financial support for themselves AND their dependents, which covers the cost of tuition, fees, housing, food, books, supplies, personal items, transportation and health insurance for a minimum of 9 months is required for the admission.