The Cooperative Education Program is available to wood science majors as an alternative approach to traditional education. In addition, most majors choose to obtain industrial experience through the Summer Internship Program. In this program, students earn academic credit while gaining valuable experience working in a quality control, processing, or marketing position in the forest products industry. The department assists students in locating summer internship positions. Type of Work Bachelor's Degree Recipients Enter Wood Science and forest products graduates enter a wide variety of positions within the forest products industry.
Career opportunities provide a number of choices which can fit the career goals of the graduates.
There is a world wide demand for professionally trained specialists in the fields of forest products manufacturing and marketing. Graduates with this major have excellent professional opportunities. Many receive multiple job offers from which to choose. Starting salaries, as a result of demand for and supply of graduates, are significantly higher than those offered to graduates in other fields in natural resources. However, once enrolled, these students in wood science and forest products are considered as in-state for tuition purposes due to a common market agreement with Maryland, as long as they make normal progress to a degree.