Forestry

Discover a career in the great outdoors.

In the classroom and in the field, forest technology students are preparing for their futures from day one.

Immersed in real-world environments, like our experimental forest and on-site sawmill, you’ll get hands-on experience with data collection tools, explore wildlife, study land management, and learn about timber harvesting.

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Forest Technology (A.A.S.)

This program takes a hands-on approach that prepares you for technical and mid-management positions in forestry production, wood processing, federal and state agencies, and manufacturing industries.

Bachelor Degree Pathway

Rise to administrative and management positions in your field with an Applied Management (B.S.) Online degree.

Minors & Immersions

Pair a minor with any bachelor's degree, or an immersion with any bachelor's or associate's degree.

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Penn College News

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Spring 2025 magazine features feats

Read the Spring 2025 edition of Penn College Magazine, featuring the feats of the Diesel Performance Club and its lightning quick “Accelerated Learning” Mack truck; the Hall of Fame-worthy tool collection of Eric L. Anstadt, assistant professor of electrical technology/occupations; the Clean Energy Center’s expanding reach; the architecture & sustainable design program’s past and present, and much more.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Industry newsletter plugs Penn College forestry roots

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology forest technology graduates and their new business are featured in “The Grain,” the monthly newsletter of the Keystone Wood Products Association. In the article titled “Branching Out: Industry Professionals Unite,” Cody A. Campion, ’11, and Zachery G. Hess, ’12, are welcomed as new members of the association. They own Keystone Timber & Forestry LLC, based in New Columbia, about 10 miles south of where they met – at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Penn College students pass pesticide certification exams

Fourteen Pennsylvania College of Technology students have passed various sections of the Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator Certification exam. The students are enrolled in Penn College’s landscape/plant production and forest technology majors. “Students with this certification are what many employers are looking for,” said Carl J. Bower Jr., assistant professor of horticulture.