Eagle Required Merit Badges
The total number of Eagle-required merit badges needed to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.
What is 14?
Three merit badges focused on water activities.
What are Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rowing?
This adult must approve a Scout starting a merit badge before any work begins.
Who is the Scoutmaster?
For this merit badge, Scouts must construct a temporary emergency shelter and spend the night in it.
What is Wilderness Survival?
This branch of the United States government is responsible for creating national laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This required merit badge demands that Scouts log community service hours.
What is Citizenship in the Community?
The number of new merit badges added in 2026
What is 5 merit badges
The number of parts of a blue card kept by the merit badge counselor upon completion.
What is 1?
For this merit badge, Scouts must learn terminology like gunwale, painter, and J-stroke.
What is Canoeing?
The collective name for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The three physical activity merit badges where a Scout has a choice to complete at least one for Eagle rank.
What are Swimming, Hiking, and Cycling?
This elective merit badge was earned the most times in 2025.
What is Fingerprinting?
The total number of merit badges required for a Scout to earn the Star rank.
What is 6?
For this merit badge, Scouts must plan and conduct an emergency mobilization.
What is Emergency Preparedness?
This presidential power blocks a bill passed by Congress as part of government checks and balances.
What is a veto?
The total number of merit badges that fall into the Eagle-required categories.
What is 18?
This elective merit badge was earned the least times in 2025.
What is Drafting?
The total number of merit badges required to achieve the Life rank.
What is 11?
The number of nights you need for Camping merit badge
What is 20 nights
The legislative body that forms the U.S. Congress along with the House of Representatives.
What is the Senate?
This badge is the newest addition to the Eagle-required list.
What is Cooking?
The total number of non-Eagle required merit badges available to earn.
What is 120?
The number of additional merit badges required beyond Eagle to earn a single Palm.
What is 5?
For this merit badge, Scouts learn the principles of budgeting, saving, and thrift.
What is Personal Management?
This international organization headquartered in New York City was created in 1945 to maintain global peace.
What is the United Nations?