What is the demand for graduates from Natural Resources Conservation and Forest Science?
Mail out surveys of recent Natural Resources Conservation (NRC) graduates have found that two thirds have been able to find employment and of those not employed, two thirds are receiving additional schooling (1). A similar pattern exists for Forest Science (FS) graduates. Those that are employed describe their positions as ‘professional’ or ‘technical paraprofessional’. Based on informal phone surveys, graduates from the NRC program largely find employment as environmental consultants in private companies, biologists or planners with governmental agencies, or extension/biological specialists working with non-profit organizations. A smaller segment of NRC graduates enter graduate school, teachers college, or seek additional training at colleges; FS graduates often choose to enter graduate school more so than NRC graduates (2). A formal market survey has not yet been done which specfically asks employers about the demand for UBC NRC or FS graduates. Though the NRC program is relatively n
