Forestry at University of Vermont

If you plan to study forestry, take a look at what University of Vermont has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UVM is located in Burlington, Vermont and approximately 13,292 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,677 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Vermont in 2021, 11 of them were forestry majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Forestry section at the bottom of this page.

UVM Forestry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry

UVM Forestry Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the forestry progam at UVM compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The forestry major at UVM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Forestry. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Forestry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	39

Forestry Student Demographics at UVM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the forestry majors at University of Vermont.

UVM Forestry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Forestry from UVM in 2020-2021, 73% were men and 27% were women.

About 91% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in forestry at UVM are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Vermont with a bachelor's in forestry.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UVM also has a doctoral program available in forestry. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Natural Resource Management
• Natural Resources Conservation

Careers That Forestry Grads May Go Into

A degree in forestry can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VT, the home state for University of Vermont.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker Supervisors	120	$47,750
Conservation Scientists	90	$55,150
Foresters	80	$65,170
Forest and Conservation Technicians	70	$41,250

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By AlexiusHoratius under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.