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Sarah Slover
Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: 919-515-7563
sarah_slover@ncsu.edu

Dr. Sarah Warren
Director of Graduate Programs
sarah_warren@ncsu.edu

Dr. Christopher Moorman
Coordinator of the Fisheries & Wildlife Program
Phone: 919-515-5578
chris_moorman@ncsu.ed

Master of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences

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This is an intercollegiate, non-thesis professional degree program administered by the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources in conjunction with the Department of Biology and the College of Veterinary Medicine. No minor is required.

Past Master of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences candidates have explored such fisheries and wildlife topics as:

Please note that this is an interdisciplinary degree program. Students who pursue specific aspects of fisheries and wildlife science are supervised by Fisheries and Wildlife faculty from several departments, and reside in the department of their major professor.

Degree Requirements

The Master of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences degree requires a minimum of 36 credits, including four to six hours of special problems and one to two hours of seminars. A professional paper is also required. Further requirements may be imposed by a student’s advisory committee.

The seminar requirement for MFWs students, regardless of the department in which they reside, is to take FW 602 at least once.  Substitutions and/or additional seminar requirements must be approved by the student’s graduate committee.  Students can take FW 602 a maximum of two times for credit, and additional times without credit.