About us

Page reviewed:  03/06/2025

The Faculty of Forest Sciences (S faculty) is an important center for higher education and research in the Swedish forest sector. International rankings show time and again that research at the faculty is world-leading.

Research and education are available in four locations in the country. Most of the departments are based in Umeå and Uppsala. The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre is located in Alnarp, and the School for Forest Management is found in Skinnskatteberg.

The faculty also has access to experimental forests, research stations and long-term field trials throughout the country. The faculty office  and management are based in Umeå.

Short facts about the faculty

Students: 614
Employees: 600
Professors: 50
Doctoral students: 127
Turnover: SEK 804 million, external financing degree 57%
(From the annual report of 2020.)

At the faculty of forest sciences, we offer several bachelor and master level programs, including forest management. Theoretical education is mixed with more practical activities such as excursions and field courses. We are also the only university in Sweden to offer programs leading to a jägmästare (forester) degree. 

Basic/bachelor level programs

Forest management 180 hp

Forest and landscape 180 hp

Forest economics 180 hp

Master programs

Euroforester 120 hp

Conservation and Management of Fish and Wildlife 120 hp

Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management 120 hp

Forest Bioeconomy 120 hp

Forest and Business Management 120 hp

Industrial Wood Supply Management 120 hp

Separate courses

Separate courses can be taken even if you are not a student at SLU. You may apply to courses from our course database or at antagning.se. 

Housing for students

On the page Här finns SLU:s utbildningar you will find information about diffent types of student housing. 

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Our designated contact for education at the Forest faculty is Ola Lindroos, vice dean. 

Our work is almost 75 percent research. In a university so intensely focused on research there are ample opportunities for doctoral education. SLU produces some 100 Ph. D’s every year, and as of 2025, there are 600 active doctoral students.

At the forest faculty, basic and applied research is carried out both in Sweden and abroad, through collaborations with universities, government bodies and organisations. 

Contact persons for questions regarding doctoral education are Göran Spång and Charlotta Bergström. 

SLU’s forest research is world class according to several international rankings. Our goal is an increased knowledge and awareness of a sustainable use of the natural resource that is the forest. The research conducted at the faculty’s departments is basic as well as applied research, in close collaboration with the users, i.e. different parts of the forest sector.

The research spans a wide register: from action-oriented resource management to basic research on environmental monitoring. Every year we produce 20 or so Ph. D’s. We collaborate closely with other research institutions; domestically and internationally. 

Further information on our research programs is available from the respective departments. For questions about research at SLU in general, contact our research secretary Ulrika Ganeteg.

Ongoing environmental analysis is a government assignment to SLU, unique among Swedish universities and colleges. The environmental objectives work is split up into twelve programs for environmental analysis, bringing together SLU’s skills in each respective area.

The programs are also related to Sweden’s international environmental objectives collaborations, and the work with the global sustainability goals.  

The forest faculty is home for the following environmental analysis programsForest

Riksskogstaxeringen (NFI) is also a government assignment within environmental analysis, started all the way back in 1923.

Designated contacts for environmental analysis at the forest faculty are Pernilla Christensen, vice dean for environmental analysis and Elisabeth Nyström, secretary of the environmental analysis board.

 

Our campuses

  • 2025-06-02

    SLU Alnarp

    At the Alnarp campus, the main activities concern landscape architecture, horticulture, plant production, agriculture and silviculture in Southern Sweden.
  • 2024-12-20

    SLU Umeå

    SLU in Umeå shares campus with Umeå University.
  • 2024-12-20

    SLU Uppsala

    SLU's Uppsala campus is located in Ultuna, in the southern part of Uppsala. This campus houses the Vice-Chancellor´s office, the university management, two of the four faculties, a significant portion of the university administration, and many students.