The programme is two years full-time programme.  The graduates will be equipped with technical expertise and skills in the area of forest conservation and biodiversity, climate change adaptation and mitigation, forest protection, nursery management and propagation, agroforestry, harvesting operations, non-timber forest products and value adding, forest business and entrepreneurship. The graduates will acquire an education at a level that will equip them for employment, self-employment and lay the foundations for a lifetime of continuous learning and personal development.

a) The Applicant must have passed Fiji Year 12 Certificate Examination or equivalent with a minimum of 200 marks with a pass (50 per cent) in Mathematics, English, Biology/Agriculture/Chemistry and any one from the following subjects such as Biology/
Agriculture/Chemistry/Food & Nutrition & Technology/Physics/Computer Science/Economics/Introduction to Technology.

b) Applicants who have passed Advanced Certificate in Forest Management or Advanced Certificate in Wood Craft Technology are also eligible for admission.

c) Applicants with a Certificate IV in Forestry are eligible for admission in first Trimester of second year of the programme. All the units of Certificate IV in Forestry except Educational Tour and Industrial Attachment will be cross credited with the units of first year Trade Diploma in Forestry programme.

d) Applicants may also be admitted to the programme who may not meet the requirement on the years of continuous education progression, but who are able to demonstrate their ability to succeed in the respective programmes on the basis of their maturity, work experience or prior learning. The Dean may require such an applicant to sit for specific or general examination as a pre requisite for any such enrolment, or may restrict enrolment only to certain prescribed courses that must be passed to progress further.