{"id":1639,"date":"2018-05-18T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/forestry\/?page_id=1639"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:33:42","slug":"bachelors-to-masters-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/degrees-and-programs\/bachelors-to-masters-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor&#8217;s to Master&#8217;s Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bachelor&#8217;s to master&#8217;s program<\/h1>\n<h2>Get a bachelor&#8217;s and a master&#8217;s in Forestry in five years at NAU<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re an outstanding and highly motivated student, our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/graduate-college\/accelerated-programs\/\">Accelerated BSF to MF program<\/a> can help you earn both degrees in forestry in five years\u2014providing you with advanced training for a career in forest management while saving you time and money.<\/p>\n<h3>Eligibility<\/h3>\n<p>You are eligible to enter the BSF to MF program if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you are enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Forestry program<\/li>\n<li>your overall NAU undergraduate cumulative GPA is 3.25 or greater<\/li>\n<li>a GPA of 3.5 or higher for classes in the following FOR courses: FOR 211, FOR 213, FOR 215, FOR 218, FOR 220, FOR 225, FOR 313, FOR 315, FOR 320, and FOR 321 or a substitute course(s) for these courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Program of study<\/h3>\n<p>You will use six hours of 400-level courses from the bachelor\u2019s degree program to meet part of the elective requirement of the Master of Forestry. You will complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of coursework:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three credit hours for a professional paper you will design with guidance from your major professor<\/li>\n<li>nine hours of required courses<\/li>\n<li>8-9 hours of core courses in Forestry<\/li>\n<li>15-16 hours of elective courses tailored to your personal interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Applications should be submitted in the spring semester of your junior undergraduate year and have talked with a forestry faculty that will advise the applicant. Contact the School of Forestry Graduate Coordinator (<a href=\"mailto:ForestryGraduateCoordinator@nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ForestryGraduateCoordinator@nau.edu<\/a>) for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelor&#8217;s to master&#8217;s program Get a bachelor&#8217;s and a master&#8217;s in Forestry in five years at NAU If you\u2019re an outstanding and highly motivated student, our\u00a0Accelerated BSF to MF program can help you earn both degrees in forestry in five years\u2014providing you with advanced training for a career in forest management while saving you time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5926,"parent":2585,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1639","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1639\/revisions\/6374"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-forestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}