2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Forestry

FORESTRY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Not many undergraduate students decide to study forestry. On average, each area of study hands out around 6,156 undergrad degrees a year; 1,156 students last year were awarded bachelor's degrees in forestry, making it the United States of America's 200th most popular subject. North Carolina State University at Raleigh​ conferred 93 of those degrees (#1 in the nation), and institutions in California accounted for more degrees than any American State (94).

55 schools around the country offer an undergraduate degree in forestry; accordingly, it will possibly be tricky to decide the right program. At the undergraduate level, the average field is 3.5 times more broadly available than forestry., making it the 257th most universally available degree.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last May, 70% of degrees in forestry were undergraduate degrees; 30% were graduate degrees. Forestry is the 177th most popular graduate degree in the country, with 496 degrees conferred. For context, the average subject is 5.6 times more popular among graduate students than forestry.

In Total, 1,652 students received a bachelor's or higher in forestry last May.

ONLINE FORESTRY DEGREES

15 of those 1,652 alumni (0.9%) came through completely remote programs - 0 undergrads and 15 master's or doctor's students. It is the 223rd most popular online advanced degree, and 97.6% south of the U.S. average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE FORESTRY DEGREES

• 318 students completed undergraduate degrees in forestry partially online last spring
• Undergrad degrees in forestry are available partially online at 52 institutions coast-to-coast
• 27.51% of all undergrad degree in forestry are done partially online
• North Carolina State University at Raleigh​ conferred the most partially online undergraduate degrees in forestry in America (39)
• The typical concentration is offered partially online at nearly 154 institutions

IN-PERSON FORESTRY DEGREES

• 838 students last year earned undergraduate degrees in forestry in-person
• 3 colleges nationwide offer an undergrad degree in forestry comprehensively in-person
• 72.49% of all undergraduate degree in forestry are earned in-person
• Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of exclusively in-person forestry majors than any other US institution (8.24%)
• Forestry is the 160th most popular entirely in-person postgraduate degree in the USA
• The average fully in-person major hands out 6,102 annual bachelor's degrees or higher