Forest Technology/Technician isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #788 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Forest Technology/Technician Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 324 degrees in forest technology/technician annually.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Forest Technology/Technician Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Forest Technology/Technician in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the forest technology/technician degrees they offer, see the list below.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).