Bachelor of Science in Forestry is a four-year undergraduate program that is divided into eight equal semesters. It provides students with the knowledge and training about Forestry. Forestry program trains students in the managing of forests, new plantation, maintaining old plantations and other natural resources.
Colleges and Universities Offering Bachelor of Forest Science in Ghana are:
University for Development Studies, Tamale. BSc Forest Resource Conservation and Management.
University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
Admission Requirements
Animal Production
Crop Production
Horticulture SSSCE/WASSCE Applicants SSSCE/WASSCE Candidates should have Credit Passes (A-D)/(A1-C6) respectively in six (6) subjects comprising three (3) subjects; English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science; and three (3) elective in the following:
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, or Elective Mathematics OR General Agriculture/ Forestry, Chemistry and Physics or Elective Mathematics. Professional and Post-Diploma Applicants Candidates in this category must possess;
A Diploma or Higher National Diploma (HND) or its equivalence in a relevant programme from a recognized and accredited institution Must pass an interview
Two years’ post-qualification working experience Candidates with HND/relevant professional or diploma certificates who obtained First Class or Second Class Upper Division will enter at level 300.
Those with Second Class Lower Division or Pass will enter at level 200.
Diploma Agriculture SSSCE/WASSCE Candidates should have Passes (A-E)/(A1-D7) respectively in six (6) subjects comprising three (3) core subjects; English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science/Social Studies; and any three (3) elective subjects.
Professional Applicants Junior Scientists, Industrialists, Technicians, Staff of Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Agriculture-based NGO’s. Teachers with Certificate ‘A’.