Since 1954, we have graduated over 4,200 forestry, forest products, wildlife, fisheries, and aquaculture students. These students—our alumni—now serve in leadership positions of state and federal agencies, CEOs of forest products companies, private consultants, and entrepreneurs. The College of Forest Resources is the only nationally accredited educational program in the state for educating and developing future leaders in natural resources.

The College is committed to promoting the professional and intellectual development of our students. We are truly an academic community dedicated to the conservation and utilization of forest and other natural resources through integrated programs.

The College of Forest Resources includes the departments of forestry; wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture; and sustainable bioproducts. We offer four majors with sixteen concentratoins and hundreds of careers. The research arm of the College is the Forest and Wildlife Research Center and we work closely with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. The outreach arm of the College is the MSU Extension Service.

The mission for the College is to foster the management, conservation, and sustainable use of forest, wildlife, and aquatic resources to beneft the people of Mississippi, the nation, and the world. Through transformative teaching and learning, research and discovery, outreach, and engagement, we prepare future leaders, enhance the restoration and sustainable use of renewable natural resources, and transfer technology into application to solve the grand challenges in forestry, forest products, and wildlife conservation.