182 Forestry Degree Programs

The Doctoral School has eight Ph.D. programs that encompass all the branches and interfaces of forestry and wildlife management sciences. Education and research at the Doctoral School are pursued in the basic and applied sciences, related to forests, wildlife, and nature. The knowledge and the degree gained at the Doctoral School are a good reference when applying for leading positions in higher education institutions, research institutes, forestry, wildlife management, and conservation.

The general objective of the title of "Master in Forestry Engineering" is the training of senior technicians trained to plan, project, organize, control and direct natural spaces and the goods and services provided by the forestry field. Among its objectives are to protect the soil, conserve and regulate water resources, ensure the continuity of species of wild flora and fauna, improve the rural environment and take advantage of forest resources, both for their transformation by industry and for direct enjoyment. .

Master of Arts in Forestry for Green Sustainable Development. The future forests offer many possibilities. This two-year program gives knowledge about how different strategies and forest management systems can provide forest ecosystem services for society in the future.

Study forestry while working with our BSc (Hons) Forestry and Treescapes Management. Gain hands-on skills in forest and environmental management through work-based learning. Train at the Scottish School of Forestry, surrounded by 110 hectares of woodland, and help combat climate change while securing forests for future generations.

The basic objective of the Master's in Forestry Engineering is to provide students with scientific, technological and socio-economic training and preparation for the profession of Forestry Engineer, whose main professional activities are forest planning and management issues; reforestation and plant production; wildlife management; the protection and conservation of the natural environment; forest industries, renewal energies; evaluation of natural systems, resources and their use, among others. The degree entitles the student to practice a regulated profession, and therefore the design of the competences is in accordance with the provisions established by the Government (Order CIN/326/2009).

The Ph.D. program in Sustainable Management of Agricultural Forestry and Food Resources builds upon the long term experience in research and teaching of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence.

Global Forestry (GLOFOR) is a two-year English language world-class Erasmus Mundus MSc programme that prepares graduates to deal with forestry’s tremendous contemporary challenges and potentials in dealing with the problems of biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the development of a circular bio-economy.

This is a program marked by multidisciplinarity in terms of teacher and student qualifications since it involves researchers from four different departments of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Plant Production, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Physiology and Botany), four research centers (Centro de Investigaciones Forestales de Lourizán, Estación Fitopatológica de Arenero, Centro de Investigaciones Agrarias de Mabegondo and Misión Biológica de Galicia) and international institutions (Germany, Switzerland, United States, Portugal and Greece), University of Extremadura and two centers of the University of A Coruña (Institute of Geology and Faculty of Sciences) which offers the student a wide range to choose the subject related to agricultural and forestry production in Galicia and the Atlantic biogeographic region of Europe.

Do you prefer to work outdoors? Don’t like being confined to an office? If so, Gateway’s Arboriculture/Urban Forestry Technician Degree program is the one for you. Almost all the work is conducted outside, working with a variety of tools and machinery. And, if you choose to climb trees, you can have your very own natural “office” with a view every day. Gateway’s Arboriculture/Urban Forestry Technician associate degree provides the hands-on skills and natural resource education for graduates to enter this exciting career field of arborists, urban foresters and related occupations. It offers family-sustaining wages and year-round work with private, corporate or government landowners.

Forestry Engineering is a profession that has traditionally worked in multidisciplinary environments in the management and planning of the natural environment. The use and extraction of information from spatial databases has been a traditional task of forestry engineers but the advent of the revolution associated with the so-called "big data" makes it necessary to take a qualitative leap in the training of these professionals. The challenges currently faced by forest management are of great significance due to the magnitude of the problems (climate change, invasive species, biodiversity crisis, etc.) and the growing demand for goods and services by society. At the same time, there is an increasing amount of information, highly relevant for decision-making in forest and environmental management, collected in large databases that require specific training for their management and analysis. For this reason, it is necessary that these professionals have a good integrated knowledge of management systems and methods applied to the forestry world, but at the same time, they have the capacity to work in different fields such as database management, computer programming, data analysis, decision making through operational research techniques, or geographic information systems and remote sensing.

Are you looking for a business education focused on forestry and sustainability? Do you want to explore the vital role of forests, gain expertise in the entire value chain, and open doors to a career in forestry? If so, then this Master’s programme is right for you.

The objective of this degree is to train forestry engineers who respond to the needs of the forestry sector and society in general. This degree enables you to develop tasks related to the management, conservation and exploitation of natural and forest spaces; carry out hydrology, reforestation and soil conservation works; hunting and fishing management. Likewise, the person who graduates will be someone professional who has knowledge about the treatment and industrial use of wood and its products, the development of renewable energy generation projects from forest biomass, quality control of forest products; the design and finish of the furniture; the development of projects for the installation of forest industries; carrying out forestry research and technological development projects, etc.

The Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Montes from the Polytechnic University of Valencia consists of 90 ECTS (1.5 academic years), with a common part of 60 ECTS and another with five synthetic and applied specialties: Mediterranean Forest Management; Natural Environment Planning; Protection and Conservation of Vegetation and Fauna in Natural Spaces; Forest Products and Forestry Adaptive to Climate Change, which include aspects of public and private activity, and that take advantage of current potential and resources. They are established in relation to the environment, landscape and activities of the forestry sector, under principles of sustainability.

This program offers a full semester (30 ECTS credits) taught in English.

Do you want to explore the forest's key role in a sustainable bioeconomy? Gain expert knowledge about the forest industry and its sustainability potential. The master's programme in forest bioeconomy opens doors to careers in forestry, consulting, and more.