The degree program

The Master's degree program in Wood Technology and the Wood Industry is an application-oriented and interdisciplinary degree program. It is jointly supported by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering. Students are taught the necessary specialist knowledge, skills and methods that enable them to critically classify scientific findings and to act independently in the field of wood technology and the timber industry.

Content and structure

Thanks to their broad specialist knowledge, their knowledge of scientific methods in the field of wood technology and the timber industry and their competence in abstraction and transfer, graduates are able to cope with diverse and complex tasks in the fields of wood technology and the timber industry.

There are seven compulsory elective modules in the study program. A Master's thesis rounds off the course, which takes place in Tharandt and Dresden.

The standard period of study for the Master's degree course in Forest Sciences is four semesters.

All study documents can be found here and in the TU Dresden's study information system (SINS).

Study conditions

Modern specialist laboratories

Numerous test stands for the production of wood-based materials and wood processing

Internship workstations

Equipment for digestion and bleaching

Professional fields

- Training internationally recognized leaders in the field of wood technology and the timber industry
- (Senior) employee in companies in the wood industry (sawmill and wood-based materials industry, furniture industry, timber construction) and the pulp industry as well as in wood energy companies
- Wood expert
- (Senior) employee in wood purchasing and procurement
- Timber trader, timber broker
- Research and development / teaching
- Politics and lobbying