This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder(s), present status, and (where applicable) closing date. Many remain active.
1904 - Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), Ames, Iowa USA; First forestry course 1877, department established 1877, forestry curriculum approved 1904. Forestry program continues to offer B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees within the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management.[15]
1920 - Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Studies in the field of forestry began in 1920 as the Department of Forestry at the Agricultural Faculty in Belgrade. The Faculty of Forestry became separate in 1949, the first independent forestry faculty in the former Yugoslavia.[20][21]
1951 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, established its Faculty of Forestry. The school would absorb students from Hungary's Sopron School in 1957.[23]
Fernow, Bernard E. 1913. A brief history of forestry in Europe, the United States and other countries, 3d. ed. Toronto: Toronto University Press; and Washington, DC: American Forestry Association.
Kuhlberg, Mark. 2009. One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Shirley, Hardy L. 1958. "Forestry education and research in Russia," Journal of Forestry56, pp. 892–899.