Forestry at North Carolina State University

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

NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and approximately 36,042 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 16 students received their master's degree in forestry.

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

NC State Forestry Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Forestry
• Doctorate Degree in Forestry

NC State Forestry Rankings

There were 11 students who received their doctoral degrees in forestry, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Forestry Student Demographics at NC State

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

NC State Forestry Master’s Program

Of the 16 students who graduated with a master’s in forestry from NC State in 2021, 69% were men and 31% were women.

In the forestry master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 19% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from North Carolina State University with a master's in forestry.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 NC, the home state for North Carolina State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker Supervisors	620	$60,510
Forest and Conservation Technicians	550	$40,700
Conservation Scientists	390	$61,780
Foresters	370	$63,610
Forestry & Conservation Science Professors	90	$64,120

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 Haruhide000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.