Wood Products Careers & Opportunities
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Graduates of the Wood Products curriculum typically enjoy more than one job offer and enter the industry as management trainees, sales trainees, process engineers or in quality assurance. The average starting salary is $42,000, with graduates usually seeing a rapid rise in salary as they acquire industrial experience and advance into more responsible positions.
Wood Products students are also required to complete a paid summer internship or a semester co-op with a company in the industry. These help students decide what kind of position in the wood products industry they are interested in pursuing and, just as importantly, what positions that they are not interested in pursuing.
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