List of historic schools of forestry

This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder, present status, and closing date. Many remain active.

1700s

1778 - A course of study in forestry formally added to the curriculum at the University of Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire
1785 - Master school of forestry established by Heinrich von Cotta and his father, in Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia
1787 or 1789 - Master school of forestry established at Hungen, Hesse, by Georg Ludwig Hartig; moved to Dillenburg, Hesse, 1797–1805; reestablished in Berlin; then, in 1830, moved to Eberswalde, about 30 km away
1790 - School of forestry established in Munich, Bavaria
1798 - Waldau Forest Institute established by Friedrich Ludwig von Witzelben, in the Kassel district of Hesse, Germany; closed 1815

1800-1849

1800 - First formal training of foresters in Russia; 'forstmeister' course established at the Naval Cadet Corps Academy, Saint Petersburg
1803 - Royal Forestry School, in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia; in 1811, moved to Saint Petersburg to become the Imperial Forestry Institute, later the S. M. Kirov Forestry Academy; today the Saint Petersburg State Forestry University.
1807 - Royal Bavarian Central Forestry Academy, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; merged with the University of Munich in 1874
1807 - Forestry Institute, Academy of Mining, Schemnitz, Austria-Hungary ; became the Academy of Mining and Forestry, 1848 ; moved to Sopron, Hungary, in 1919; continues today as the University of West Hungary.
1811 - Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry, Tharandt, Saxony ; now part of Dresden University of Technology, Germany
1811 - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, Stockholm
1813 - Imperial Academy of Forestry, at the Mariabrunn monastery, near Vienna, Austria
1824 - French National School of Forestry, Nancy, France; today part of AgroParisTech
1830 - Royal Prussian Higher Forestry College established in Eberswalde; later affiliated as a faculty of the University of Berlin; the International Union of Forest Experiment Stations, predecessor of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, was established there on August 17, 1892.
1844 - Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Madrid, Spain, continuing today in the Technical University of Madrid
1848 - School of forestry established at Turin, Italy

1850-1899

1860 - Royal Agriculture and Forestry College, Križevci, Croatia; today the College of Agriculture at Križevci
1868 - Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany; successor to the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry at Münden
1870 - Forest Institute of Vallombrosa, Italy, established on the German model
1875 - Forestry program established at the University of Agriculture in Vienna, Austria, incorporating the former Imperial Academy of Forestry at Mariabrunn
1878 - Imperial Forest School, Dehradun, India ; today, incorporated into the Indian Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
1885 - Royal Indian Engineering College, Surrey, England ; closed 1905
1897 - Forestry programs included in the Faculty of Agriculture, in the newly established Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyoto University, Japan
1898, September 1 - Biltmore Forest School, Asheville, North Carolina, USA ; closed 1913
1898, September 22 or 23 - New York State College of Forestry at Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA ; closed June 1903
1898, October 20 - Academy of Forestry established at the University of Zagreb, Croatia

1900-1949

1900 - [Yale Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford|School of Forestry & Environmental Studies|Yale School of Forestry], New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1902 - Agriculture and Forestry School, Shanxi Province, China
1903 - Forestry department, Imperial University of Peking, China
1903, May - Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, Mont Alto, PA ; merged with the Pennsylvania State University to become Penn State Mont Alto
1904 - Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Iowa State College, 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.
1904 - Forestry department, Zhili Higher Agricultural School, Hebei Province, China; in 1952, the department was separated into several universities, with most faculty going into the Beijing Forestry University
1905 - School of Forestry, Oxford University, England
1906 - School of Forestry, University of Georgia,
1906 - South African Forestry School, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa
1907 - Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada
1907 - School of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1908 - Ranger School, University of Montana
1910, April 19 - Forest School established within the College of Agriculture at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Royal F. Nash, founding "Officer-in-Charge"; today the College of Forestry and Natural Resources
1910 - Victorian School of Forestry, Creswick, Australia.
1911 - New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA; ; now part of the State University of New York system
1912 - Madras Forest Academy, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India
1913 - School of Forestry, University of Montana. Established by the 12th Legislature of Montana.
1919 - Moscow Forest Engineering Institute, Russia's "first higher education institution for training forest engineers"; now Moscow State Forest University
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.
1926 - Australian Forestry School, Canberra, Australia. Foundation Principal Charles Lane Poole. Became part of the Australian National University in 1965.
1932 - Saasveld Forestry College, George, South Africa; now part of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
1948, June 16 - Forestry Specialist School, Shanxi Province, China

1950-present

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.
1952 - Beijing Forestry University, China, with faculty from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Beijing Agricultural University
1962 - Forestry school established in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with support from the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Government of Brazil; moved the next year to become a faculty of the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba.
1976 - Institute of Forestry established in the Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, with help of Ministry of Environment and Forest and Bangladesh Forest Department. It is the pioneer institution of the country which initiated Professional Master of Forestry in 1977–78; 4-year B.Sc. in Forestry in 1978–79; M.Sc. in Forestry in 1996; B.Sc. in Environmental Science in 2000–2001; and M.Sc. in Environmental Science in 2004. Renamed as the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, CU, July 1996.