BSA Merit Badges

Rank Requirements

Eagle Scout

Order of the Arrow

Patrol Method

More detailed description of the Merit Badges can be found at Merit Badge.com

Merit Badges in bold are Eagle required

American Business, American Culture, American Heritage, American Labor, Animal Science, Archaeology, Archery, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Athletics, Atomic Energy, Auto Mechanics, Aviation

Backpacking, Basketry, Bird Study, Bugling

Camping, Canoeing, Chemistry, Cinematography, Citizen in the Community, Citizen in the Nation, Citizen in the World, Climbing, Coin Collecting, Collections, Communications, Computers, Cooking, Crime Prevention, Cycling

Dentistry, Disabilities Awareness, Dog Care, Drafting

Electricity, Electronics, Emergency Preparedness, Energy, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science

Family Life, Farm Mechanics, Fingerprinting, Fire Safety, First Aid, Fish and Wildlife Management, Fishing, Forestry

Gardening, Genealogy, Geology, Golf, Graphic Arts

Hiking, Home Repair, Horsemanship

Indian Lore, Insect Study

Journalism

Landscape Architecture, Law, Leatherwork, Lifesaving

Mammal Study, Medicine, Metalwork, Model Design and Building, Motorboating, Music

Nature

Oceanography, Orienteering

Painting, Personal Fitness, Personal Management, Pets, Photography, Pioneering, Plant Science, Plumbing, Pottery, Public Health, Public Speaking, Pulp and Paper

Radio, Railroading, Reading, Reptile and Amphibian Study, Rifle Shooting, Rowing

Safety, Salesmanship, Scholarship, Sculpture, Shotgun Shooting, Skating, Small-Boat Sailing, Snow Sports, Soil and Water Conservation, Space Exploration, Sports, Stamp Collecting, Surveying, Swimming

Textile, Theater, Traffic Safety, Truck Transportation

Veterinary Medicine

Water Skiing, Weather, Whitewater, Wilderness Survival, Wood Carving, Woodworking