Diploma
24 months
Processing time: 30 days
Application fee: CA$154
Full-time
Intakes: September
International tuition: CA$19,281
Domestic tuition: CA$6,439
Program overview
Management of forest resources in today’s world means managing forest ecosystems. Forestry practices must integrate field skills, scientific knowledge and technology in an ecological framework, to produce various goods and services.
Graduates learn such skills as to:
identify, describe, measure and interpret ecosystems and associated components including landforms, vegetation, soils, geomorphology, aquatic ecosystems, forest stand attributes and wildlife habitat
Collect field data in both urban and rural environments and create technical reports, spreadsheets and digital maps using industry standard software (such as GIS & GPS) including the use of leading technology
Apply vegetation management techniques for application in wildland and urban silviculture areas
Analyze vegetation symptoms that relate to insects and diseases
Design and implement sampling plans and techniques for resource inventories
Study options

This program can be done
On campus
Requirements
Exams:
- IELTS
- PTE
- TOEFL iBT
2 years of education in English in an English-speaking country with
English 12 (67%) or 3.0 credits of post-secondary English, humanities or social sciences (67%) from a recognized institution. Or one of the following:
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL 86
PTE 60
Math: one of the following:
Principles of Mathematics 11 (60%) or
Applications of Mathematics 11 (67%) or
Pre-Calculus 11 (60%) or
Foundations of Mathematics 11 (67%)
Science: two of the following with minimum high school grade 11 (60%):
Biology
Chemistry
Physics or Applied Physics
Earth Science
Geology
Recognized Resource Science 12
Geography
Forestry
Career opportunities
Graduates work for the municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments, the environmental consulting sector, and various natural resource industry sectors. Alternatively, graduates may work as a natural area technologists in a city in fields as:
Invasive species management
Arboriculture
Urban interface management
In addition, graduates will be qualified to work in areas of the traditional forestry sector which include:
Forest Measurements and Inventory
Forest Protection and Forest Health
Forest Engineering
Silviculture
Campus location
Burnaby
,
Canada
