- Degree
- Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.)
- Admission restriction
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Yes
- Contact
- Application deadline
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29 April – 15 July 2024
Arboriculture & urban forest management: what to expect on your degree programme
This degree programme is designed to enable you to take responsibility for tree care, administration, visitor management and nature conservation in green spaces and urban forests. You will be taught all the necessary scientific and practical content during the course of the programme.
Contents of the Bachelor's degree programme in Arboriculture
The Arboriculture and Urban Forest Management degree programme is based on the pillars of ecology, economics, social issues and technology. The content is drawn from the interdisciplinary courses offered by three departments (Forestry, Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Food Technology) and their degree programmes. You will encounter these focal points in detail:
- Ecology
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- Tree species: characteristics, site requirements & suitability in climate change
- Recognising & monitoring biotic & abiotic damage, possible countermeasures
- Climate protection effect of trees & forests
- Consideration of nature & species conservation in maintenance & construction measures
- Social affairs
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- Perception & appreciation of trees in urban society
- Surveys & public relations work
- Acceptance & participation of residents
- Visitor guidance
- Economy
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- Valuation of ecosystem services
- Accounting & taxation
- Contract & labour law
- Innovation & Business Creation
- Technology
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- Health and safety
- Tree assessment
- Use of geographical information systems
- Automation & AI
This is how the Arboriculture & Forest Management degree programme is structured
The Arboriculture and Urban Forest Management degree programme comprises seven semesters. An internship semester takes place in the fifth semester, in which you can underpin the knowledge you have gained up to that point with practical experience outside the University of Applied Sciences and get to know future employers. You will receive your Bachelor of Engineering with the final Bachelor's thesis. The course always starts in the winter semester on 1 October each year.
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1st semester
Module ECTS Biological basics 5 Knowledge of biological forms 5 Introduction to computer science 5 Geoscientific basics 5 History of Park & Landscape 5 Compulsory elective modules (2 x 3 ECTS) 6 -
2nd semester
Module ECTS Basics of working with trees 5 Dendrology & wood science 5 Tree health 5 Labour & general contract law 5 Site theory 5 Compulsory elective modules (2 x 3 ECTS) 6 -
3rd semester
Module ECTS Tree statics & analysis 5 Social Science Fundamentals 5 Geoinformatics 5 Ecosystem services & green infrastructure 5 Communication 5 Compulsory elective modules (2 x 3 ECTS) 6 -
4th semester
Module ECTS Accounting & Taxation 5 Tree control & special working techniques 8 Ecological tree monitoring 5 Trees in climate change, tree nursery management 5 Forest communities & tree species suitability 5 Compulsory elective module 3 -
5th semester (practical semester)
Module ECTS Internship 25 Practical courses 5 -
6th semester
Module ECTS Public procurement law, construction contract law & supplementary management 5 Planning Law 5 Visitor guidance & participation 5 Work planning & project management 5 Environmental planning & nature conservation 5 Urban forest management 5 -
7th semester
Module ECTS Bachelor thesis 13 Innovation Lab 5 Corporate Management 5 Compulsory elective module 3
Career opportunities after studying arboriculture
By completing the degree programme, you will acquire a scientifically sound, application-oriented and professionally qualifying degree with which you can take on a wide range of specialist and management tasks.
These tasks include in particular
- Management of tree care companies
- Expertise as a tree expert
- Fields of work in public administration, for example
- engineering work in planning offices or environmental agencies
- management of garden and green space offices
- Engineering activities
- in road and route management
- in planning offices
- in application-orientated research and science
- Employment
- in environmental education and visitor guidance
- in nature conservation
- environmental Engineering
- in landscape management
- in resource management
Prerequisites for the Arboriculture & Urban Forest Management degree programme
The Arboriculture and Urban Forest Management degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf has admission restrictions in the form of a local NC (numerus clausus). You can find information on the general admission requirements and how to apply for the degree programme on our general pages.
Arboriculture at Weihenstephan: four reasons in favour of the study location
- The only academic programme of its kind in southern Germany
- Practice-oriented degree programme developed in cooperation with potential employers
- Studying on the green campus: Weihenstephan Gardens (perennial garden, courtyard garden) educational forest with world forest (arboretum), forest adventure trail and the "green slopes" of the city of Freising
- Exchange in the "Forest-Forestry-Wood Weihenstephan" competence centre, which is unique in Europe
