The best part of Urban Forestry is the tight-knit community between the professors and the students. Having such a small program has enabled room for these connections that I don’t think you get in many programs.
Forestry at UBC Vancouver
World-class faculty, award-winning research.
UBC’s Faculty of Forestry is one of the world’s top ranked forestry schools. It has six degrees that span topics from wood engineering and sustainability to soil science and urban planning.
Choose a degree that challenges you academically, provides exciting opportunities to enrich your university experience, and opens the door to a breadth of in-demand careers.
Get a glimpse of life as an undergraduate student at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry - and find out whether one of its degrees is right for you - by reading our student stories.
60,000 acres
across two research forests where you can enhance your classroom learning with field studies.
Photo by @nasrii.8
Conservation
Develop the skills to play an active role in protecting and managing our natural environments, such as wildlife, forests, rivers, oceans, and land.
Vancouver
Build a strong foundation in the biological, physical, and social fundamentals required for sustainable forest management in any ecosystem or political jurisdiction. This interdisciplinary degree integrates science and technology in a combination of classroom and fieldwork.
Vancouver
Study scientific principles related to forests, forest organisms, and plant and animal ecology. Forest Sciences is based on the principle that forests are complex ecosystems made up of thousands of living organisms and non-living components, and that our use of one part of the forest ecosystem can impact all of the others.
Vancouver
Play an active role in protecting and managing our natural environment, including wildlife, forests, rivers, oceans, and land. This interdisciplinary program of study is the most popular degree in UBC's Faculty of Forestry.
Innovation
The possibilities of sustainable innovation are endless when working with a renewable resource.
Vancouver
Canada is well-positioned to seize opportunities in the emerging bioeconomy because of its global leadership in forestry and agriculture, access to biomass, and skilled workforce. The Bachelor of Science in Forest Bioeconomy Sciences and Technology (BEST) is the country's first comprehensive program focused on the growing bioeconomy.
Vancouver
If you're innovative, and you enjoy engineering and problem solving, Wood Products Processing could be for you. This award-winning degree fuses science, engineering, and business.
Vancouver
Develop your passion for the urban environment as you learn more about sustainability, green space planning, and nature in the city. Urban Forestry is the first undergraduate degree in Canada dedicated to the planning and management of urban green spaces.
Elliot Bellis, Urban Forestry
Ainsley Hannah, Natural Resources Conservation
UBC is truly a place like no other. The transition from high school to university is a big step, but I feel like I found a place that I belong.
Take the first step
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