What can you do with an environment and natural resources degree?

Routes that need more than the degree

1. 01

   Apply to become a conservation officer

   Ontario's conservation officer page lists a college or university diploma or degree in natural resource management as an asset, not a requirement. It asks for knowledge and experience in natural resource management and related legislation, and a law enforcement physical fitness test completed within nine months before applying. Ontario.ca: become a conservation officer
2. 02

   Register as a professional forester

   The Ontario Professional Foresters Association says the most straightforward way to become a Registered Professional Forester is to complete an accredited post-secondary university forestry program. Without that, it describes a competency assessment of your training and experience. Ontario Professional Foresters Association: becoming a professional forester
3. 03

   Become a licensed landscape architect

   The Ontario Association of Landscape Architects says only Full Members may use the title landscape architect in Ontario. It lists completing its Professional Development Program as an Intern Member, CLARB certification, or reciprocity with an equivalent Canadian association as ways to Full Membership. Ontario Association of Landscape Architects: full membership
4. 04

   Add a college graduate certificate

   Ontario Colleges states that graduate certificates require a university degree or a college certificate or diploma for admission, and build on knowledge and experience from earlier postsecondary study. Check each program on ontariocolleges.ca for its own entry requirements. Ontario Colleges: program types

• The Census is from 2021. Jobs and hiring have moved since. Job Bank's outlook is current to 2025 to 2027.
• It counts employed people and what they do, not whether they wanted that job or use their degree in it. A graduate working as a retail supervisor is counted in the data exactly like one working in their field.
• It is a 25% sample, and Statistics Canada rounds every count to a multiple of five. Small groups are noisy.
• For Ontario the Census publishes bachelor's degree or higher together, so those tables include master's and doctoral graduates.
• Each person is counted once, by their highest credential. A person who finished a diploma and then a degree appears under the degree, not the diploma.
• The 12 jobs shown are the most common, not all of them. The rest of the graduates are spread across hundreds of other jobs.

Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, tables 98-10-0447-01 and 98-10-0403-01; Job Bank (Employment and Social Development Canada) Ontario outlooks and wages, linked on each job. We join them by occupation code and change neither.