Forestry Program Student Success
BORF Exam Results
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Graduating Senior Employment
In the past four years, the employment rate for graduating seniors in Forestry is 98%. Since 2016, a number of forestry students had permanent jobs after summer employment between their junior and senior years. They had only to complete their senior year, graduate, and go to the position waiting for them.
Students graduating with a degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (NREC) have had a job waiting or were accepted into graduate or law school with a placement rate of 85% over the past four academic years.
Graduate School or Law School
In the past five years, all graduating forestry seniors have been accepted into the graduate program or law school to which they applied (100% success). The number desiring to go to law school is lower (n=2); however, all of these metrics were indicative of the quality of the undergraduate educational program and quality of the students.
Students graduating from the NREC program that have applied to law school (n=2) were admitted (100% success).
Starting Salaries
College | Average Salary | Salary Count
Bagley College of Engineering | 60,167 | 193
Forest Resources | 45,860 | 15
Business and Industry | 43,563 | 128
Architecture, Art & Design | 40,943 | 13
Arts and Sciences | 39,881 | 62
Agriculture and Life Sciences | 38,124 | 51
Education | 37,310 | 96
Veterinary Medicine | 32,413 | 6
All Colleges | 47,138 | 559
Other Accolades
The SAF Student Chapter has been ranked as one of the top three student chapters in the nation for the last 25 consecutive years.
A key faculty committee, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, has student representation, including two students from Forestry and two from NREC. Starting next year, the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award will also be given to an undergraduate in the NREC major together with the current award for Forestry majors.
Program Learning Outcomes, BS in Forestry
- Communicate Effectively Across Media
- Integrate Biological and Physical Sciences into Management Strategies
- Apply Quantitative Methods and Geospatial Tools to Measure and Monitor Trees, Inventory Stands, and Predict Future Conditions
- Develop and Implement Forest Management Plans
- Understand Policy, Economic, and Market Contexts
- Demonstrate Professional and Ethical Responsibility
Program Learning Outcomes, BS in Natural Resource and Environmental Conservation
- Communicate effectively across oral, written and visual means
- Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior, teamwork and leadership
- Synthesize knowledge across biological, physical and ecological principles to assess health and function of ecosystems.
- Apply quantitative and geospatial techniques to design, implement, and interpret natural resource inventories and assessments.
- Evaluate the economic, legal, policy, and social frameworks that guide natural resource management and conservation
- Develop science-based management plans that integrate mitigation of threats with ownership goals, legal constraints, and societal values.
- Employ critical reasoning and systems thinking to solve complex, multi-disciplinary natural resource problems