The Department is involved in undergraduate education in several ways. Both in the Forestry program and courses on PhD education level within the Forest Faculty as well as in a masterprogram with environmental profiling at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics.
Within the Forest science program, the Department partake in the undergraduate education foremost within four areas; Economics, Business administration and Forest policy (Umeå) and Forest industrial economis (Uppsala). In addition, it is possible to take a master i Forest industrial economis with focus on forest value chains from a business economics perspective.
Environmental and resource economics is a strong research area at the Department, mostly through CERE (Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics). A centre between this Department and Economics at Umeå University. It is also possible to do a master with an environmental economics profile at Umeå University.
When it comes to graduate education, there is a great deal of collaboration between Umeå University within CERE but also the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU within ECOS. Several courses are given each year for a wide international base.