Scholarships
Forestry and Environmental Resources Scholarships
The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources (FER) aims to provide students with academic merit or financial need with support to attend NC State. Our departmental scholarships operate independently from the university-wide merit scholarship program, the college-wide program and the various federal, state and private programs.
Eligibility
To be considered for a departmental scholarship, students must be a current FER student or an accepted for admission as a full-time NC State undergraduate student in our Department in one of the following majors: Environmental Sciences (ES), Environmental Technology and Management (ETM), Forest Management (FOM), Natural Resources (NRE or NRP) or Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology (SFW, SFF or FWCB). Your first major of double majors must also be in FER.
Types of Scholarships
The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Scholarship Program provides three types of awards: Academic Scholarship, Summer Camp Scholarships and Work Scholarships.
Academic Scholarships are competitively awarded based on academic merit and leadership, but financial need is also considered.
- Minimum standards for incoming high school graduates are an un-weighted grade point average of 3.750 (based on a 4-point scale), a combined SAT score of 1250 on the math and verbal sections or a score of 25 on the ACT.
- Transfer and current students must have a total grade point average of at least 3.500 (on a 4-point scale).
- Academic Scholarships usually provide $4,000 – $6,000 per year, although additional funding is sometimes available to out-of-state students.
- Academic scholarships may be renewed for the minimum number of additional semesters required to complete the current major, but not more than three additional years, provided the recipient does not change majors and earns a total grade point average of 3.500 or better.
Summer Camp Scholarships are competitively awarded based on academic merit to students attending Forestry or Wildlife Summer Camp.
- A grade point average of at least 2.5 (on a 4-point scale) is required.
- Summer Camp Scholarships usually provide $500- $1,500 toward tuition and fees at either Forestry or Wildlife Summer Camp.
- Summer Camp Scholarship applications will be distributed at the Summer Camp Information Meeting in the spring. This meeting is mandatory before attending Summer Camp.
Work Scholarships are competitively awarded based on academic merit, leadership and ability to perform or willingness to learn forest management activities such as prescribed fire, timber inventory, road maintenance, boundary line marking, record keeping and mapping.
- Applicants must be willing to work on most Saturdays.
- A total grade point average of at least 2.5 (on a 4-point scale) is required.
- Work Scholarships provide up to $4,800 per year, but require up to 240 hours of work on one of the college-owned forests.
- Recipients are paid biweekly at the rate of $16 to 20 per hour until the max award has been earned.
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Our goal as a college and a department is to solve the natural resources challenges that stand between us and the future. To do that, our students rely on the generous support of our alumni and friends. By supporting our students through scholarships, you make a powerful, lasting impact on their time at NC State. Your support helps us attract top students and turn them loose on our toughest problems. From scholarship support that attracts top students — and turns them loose on our toughest problems — to endowed professorships that ensure our department is home to international experts, we do extraordinary things with your help.