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A program that focuses on the scientific study of the relationships and interactions of small-scale biological systems, such as organisms, to each other, to complex and whole systems, and to the physical and other non-biological aspects of their environments. Includes instruction in biogeochemistry; landscape and/or marine/aquatic dynamics; decomposition; global and regional elemental budgets; biotic and abiotic regulation of nutrient cycles; ecophysiology; ecosystem resilience, disturbance, and succession; community and habitat dynamics; organismal interactions (co-evolution, competition, predation); paleoecology; and evolutionary ecology.

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Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Maryland-College Park	94	1%	$23,734
2	Iowa State University	82	1%	$18,920
3	University of California-Santa Cruz	77	2%	$33,153
4	Princeton University	68	4%	$55,832
5	Towson University	59	1%	$23,166
6	Appalachian State University	50	1%	$19,058
7	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus	45	1%	$21,842
8	University of Georgia	45	1%	$22,064
9	New York University	41	0%	$63,540
10	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	28	0%	$25,281
11	Saint Cloud State University	28	1%	$19,002
12	University of Connecticut	25	0%	$27,244
13	Connecticut College	21	5%	$60,780
14	Lesley University	19	1%	$49,765
15	University of Northern Iowa	16	1%	$19,880
16	University of California-Los Angeles	16	0%	$32,416
17	Northern Michigan University	15	1%	$20,273
18	Siena College	14	2%	$47,265
19	Ohio State University-Main Campus	14	0%	$25,479
20	University of Florida	14	0%	$19,103
21	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	13	0%	$23,203
22	University of California-Davis	11	0%	$33,066
23	Columbia University in the City of New York	11	0%	$64,144
24	University of Maryland Eastern Shore	10	2%	$21,454
25	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania	9	0%	$22,132

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
26	Stony Brook University	9	0%	$22,127
27	Utah State University	8	0%	$17,720
28	Texas State University	7	0%	$19,620
29	University of Denver	6	0%	$56,077
30	Georgetown College	6	1%	$44,110
31	Seattle Pacific University	6	1%	$47,674
32	Averett University	5	3%	$39,124
33	Kent State University at Kent	5	0%	$24,926
34	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	5	0%	$33,592
35	University of Chicago	5	0%	$64,988
36	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	5	0%	$29,468
37	Michigan Technological University	5	0%	$26,375
38	Northern State University	4	1%	$18,921
39	University of Delaware	4	0%	$25,612
40	Prescott College	4	1%	$41,336
41	College of the Ozarks	4	1%	$27,276
42	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	4	0%	$27,450
43	Florida Institute of Technology	4	0%	$52,690
44	Fordham University	3	0%	$63,438
45	The Sage Colleges	3	0%	$42,470
46	University of California-Riverside	3	0%	$32,238
47	Le Moyne College	3	0%	$44,900
48	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	3	0%	$24,024
49	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	2	0%	$26,240
50	New Mexico State University-Main Campus	2	0%	$18,255
51	Idaho State University	2	0%	$21,068
52	The University of Montana	2	0%	$19,106
53	Olivet Nazarene University	2	0%	$41,490
54	Susquehanna University	2	0%	$51,400
55	Bennington College	2	1%	$61,920
56	Unity College	2	2%	$35,864
57	Duke University	1	0%	$61,748
58	Midway College	1	0%	$37,650
59	University at Buffalo	1	0%	$23,316
60	Salisbury University	1	0%	$22,368
61	Northwest Nazarene University	1	0%	$36,550
62	Molloy College	1	0%	$43,718
63	Greensboro College	1	0%	$39,376
64	Dowling College	1	0%	$43,962

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Ecology program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.