Forestry at Northern Arizona University

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

NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and approximately 29,566 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 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.

NAU Forestry Degrees Available

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

NAU Forestry Rankings

There were 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in forestry, making the school the #10 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Forestry Student Demographics at NAU

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

NAU Forestry Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 forestry majors earned their master's degree from NAU. Of these graduates, 54% were men and 46% were women.

Of the students who received a forestry master's degree from NAU, 54% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the forestry master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 46% of degree recipients. That is 32% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 AZ, the home state for Northern Arizona University.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Forest and Conservation Technicians	1,320	$38,270
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker Supervisors	610	$51,540
Conservation Scientists	270	$71,190

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 Teksaz227 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.