Facts, Figures & Reports
Most Recent Annual Report (released 3/07)
Number of Graduate Students: 60
Number of Undergraduate Students: approximately 140
Undergraduate Student to Teaching Faculty Ratio: 6 to 1
Rankings
Although forestry programs are not regularly ranked by an independent entity, the Virginia Tech Forestry Department was ranked second in North America in a recent study completed at Auburn University and is generally considered one of the premiere programs of its kind in the country. The department was named a University Exemplary Department in 2001.
Teaching
Forestry faculty are dedicated to teaching and have received numerous university-wide teaching awards and been honored with the top national teaching award (two occasions) by the Society of American Foresters. Faculty include a University Distinguished Professor and a Diggs Teaching Scholar. Forestry faculty have authored widely-adopted textbooks in the McGraw-Hill Series in Forest Resources and the most comprehensive Dendrology Textbook CD available, Woody Plants of North America.
Editorial Service
Five faculty have served as Editor of Forest Science, the premiere forestry research journal. (No other university can claim more than one.)
Faculty currently serve as Associate Editors or Editorial Board members for Forest Science, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Journal of Forest Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Leisure Sciences, Journal of Forestry, International Journal of Wilderness, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Society and Natural Resources, Tree Physiology, and New Forests.
Research Excellence
Faculty have recently been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of American Foresters, the Soil Science Society of America and the Academy of Leisure Sciences. Forestry faculty have been honored with the top national award in research by the Society of American Foresters. One faculty member has received the Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations.