{"id":9721,"date":"2025-12-18T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:39:23","slug":"admission-open-for-msc-in-conservation-biology-and-msc-in-natural-resource-management-for-july-2026-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/?p=9721","title":{"rendered":"Admission Open for MSc in Conservation Biology and MSc in Natural Resource Management for July 2026 intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admissions are now open for the July 2026 intake for the MSc in Natural Resource Management and the MSc in Conservation Biology under the self-funding mode at the College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan, Lobesa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Applicants should have completed BSc in Agriculture, Forestry, Wildlife, Life Science, and Environment Science awarded by a recognised University. However, applicants who have completed BSc in Agriculture, Animal Science and relevant disciplines having at least 50% relevant components of forestry, wildlife, environment or life sciences (zoology, botany etc.) can also be admitted upon verification by the admission committee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Applicants should have secured a minimum of 50% aggregate in BSc programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>International applicants will have to produce English proficiency test documents such as IELTS, TOEFL etc.<\/li>\n<li>Confirmation of candidature will be based on the decision of the Confirmation Panel upon successful verification of all the documents<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Documents required<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Application form to be filled in and sent through e-mail with the other relevant documents. Download the application form from this link:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Application-Form-MSc-CB-and-NRM-2026-July-Intake.pdf\">Application form for MSc admission<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Admission-Open-for-Master-of-Science-in-Conservation-Biology.docx\">.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Current CV including academic, employment (if any) and publication records (if any).<\/li>\n<li>A preliminary research proposal.<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation letters from at least one academic and\/or professional referees.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Admission<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Application submission DEADLINE is on or before 25 February<\/li>\n<li>Document verification: 28 February 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Start of Semester: 21 July 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>How to apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Completed documents may be submitted to the Programme Leader, Dr. Yonten Dorji (<a href=\"mailto:dbgurung.cnr@rub.edu.bt\">Ydorji.cnr@rub.edu.bt<\/a>; Phone: +975-17919642 for the MSc in CB); Mr. Laxmi Sagar <a href=\"mailto:(sagar.cnr@rub.edu.bt\">(pl.nrm.cnr@rub.edu.bt<\/a>; Phone: +975-17924508 for the MSc in NRM) \u00a0with a copy to the Dean of Research and Industrial Linkages (dril.cnr@rub.edu.bt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admissions are now open for the July 2026 intake for the MSc in Natural Resource Management and the MSc in Conservation Biology under the self-funding mode at the College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan, Lobesa. Criteria Applicants should have completed BSc in Agriculture, Forestry, Wildlife, Life Science, and Environment Science awarded by a recognised University. However, applicants who have completed BSc in Agriculture, Animal Science and relevant disciplines having at least 50% relevant components of forestry, wildlife, environment or life sciences (zoology, botany etc.) can also be admitted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9758,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnr.edu.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}