The Wood Industries program is fully accredited by the Society of Wood Science and Technology, a nationally recognized Association representing Wood Science programs across the country. Most Wood Industries graduates find employment in private sector production management, quality assurance, marketing, technical service, or research. Graduates go to work in a wide variety of wood products manufacturing and using industries, including the lumber, particleboard, plywood, furniture and cabinet, and architectural woodwork industries. WVU is one of only two institutions in the country with a cooperative educational and employment partnership with the Architectural Woodwork Institute, a trade association of architectural woodworking firms. Most students who choose to pursue careers within higher education institutions and continue their education.
Advanced degrees are available in the wood science area.
The excellent instructional facilities of the College offer students many learning opportunities. The Agricultural Sciences Building contains most of the offices, classrooms, and laboratories for agricultural programs as well as the dairy plant and meat laboratories. The headquarters for the Division of Forestry, Percival Hall, houses that unit's offices, classrooms, and laboratories, including the wood processing facilities. In Allen Hall, Family and Consumer Sciences classes are held, and the laboratory nursery school is located on the Evansdale Campus. Maintaining eight farms, two campus greenhouses, and more than 8,000 acres of forest land for teaching and research, the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences offer students a variety of educational opportunities.