The requirements for all 120 BSA Merit Badges as well as all 7 rank requirements are located here on our site.

Also available is a web page from the National BSA site describing the Merit Badge program. You can also view/download it in a more printer friendly PDF file format.

The BSA revised the requirements for 20 Merit Badges effective January 1, 2004. In some cases these revisions were complete re-writes where in others only minor changes were made. The source of this information is the 2004 Boy Scout Requirements book.

2004 Requirements

 The inside flap of the front cover of this book reads as follows:
"The requirements for merit badges, ranks, and Eagle Palms are effective January 1, 2004. These requirements are effective through December 2004.

The requirements listed in this book might not match those in the merit badge pamphlets because the pamphlets may not have been recently revised. The requirements in this book are the official requirements of the Boy Scouts of America."

It is because of this statement that I use this book as the final authority in building and maintaining these web pages.

Please keep in mind, that while I have taken great strides to ensure the accuracy of the Boy Scout advancement information you will find here on this site, you should allways refer back to a hard copy of the current Boy Scout Requirements book before signing off a Scout as having completed any of the requirements of any given merit badge or rank.