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Full time

DURATION

24 Months

Master of Science in Environment Management is a full-time two-year course degree offered by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun and approved by ICFRE.

The programme aims to provide opportunities to the students to make themselves aware about the problems related to environmental concerns and its management. The programme is designed to provide a holistic and integrated approach of learning comprising of classroom lectures, classroom assignments, practical sessions, interactive seminars, field visits, industrial visits, term papers, divisional attachments and master’s thesis writing. The course builds and facilitates understanding of the dynamics of environment especially in the context of ecology, forestry, and climate change. Different types of processes, models, plans and techniques related to environmental processes are described and discussed through class room interaction as well as exposures visits to different ecosystems and institutional/industrial arrangements. The students are expected to get enough exposure for practical solutions to various ecological and environmental problems in the context of today’s world.

Eligibility Criteria

Three years bachelor’s degree in any branch of Basic or Applied Sciences or Bachelor’s degree in Forestry or Agriculture or BE in Environment Science with minimum 50% marks.

Admission Details

The Forest Research Institute University shall admit the students to the M.Sc. courses, through entrance examination.

System of admission
An advertisement will be made in at least three leading national news papers sometime in January / February inviting applications for admission to the programmes to be conducted by the Institute. The number of seats fixed and advertised will not be generally changed. However the Institute has the right to withdraw the programme/programmes offered by it due to operational difficulties in a particular academic Year/session.

Reservation for scheduled castes / tribes, OBC
15 percent of the total available seats shall be reserved for scheduled castes and seven and 7.5 percent for scheduled tribes candidate subject to their being otherwise suitable. These reservations shall be interchangeable i.e. if sufficient number of candidates are not available to fill up the seats reserved for scheduled tribes candidates, these can be filled up from among suitable scheduled castes candidates within the programme concerned. The quota fixed for scheduled castes tribes cannot be de-reserved even if none of the scheduled caste/ tribe candidate qualify for admission in a particular course. The reservation to OBC is being provided as per the policy of the Govt. of India.