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Most Popular Schools for Ecology Major & Degree Program

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 Iowa State University 95 1% $21,186
2 University of Maryland-College Park 71 1% $27,146
3 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 70 1% $26,231
4 University of California-Santa Cruz 63 1% $36,217
5 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 53 1% $24,105
6 University of Georgia 46 0% $26,688
7 New York University 32 0% $73,566
8 University of North Texas 30 0% $24,712
9 University of Connecticut 29 0% $32,404
10 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 23 0% $27,898
11 Connecticut College 23 5% $71,970
12 University of California-Los Angeles 21 0% $34,620
13 Siena College 17 2% $55,706
14 Appalachian State University 15 0% $19,194
15 Augusta University 15 1% $21,254
16 Towson University 14 0% $26,834
17 Lesley University 14 1% $49,255
18 SUNY College at Plattsburgh 14 1% $25,059
19 University of Florida 13 0% $21,211
20 Central Washington University 13 0% $23,201
21 Seattle Pacific University 12 1% $58,794
22 Susquehanna University 12 3% $62,480
23 University of Maryland Eastern Shore 11 2% $24,216
24 Utah State University 11 0% $20,504
25 University of California-Davis 9 0% $35,177
26 Saint Cloud State University 9 0% $20,991
27 Ohio University-Main Campus 9 0% $28,986
28 SUNY Buffalo State 9 0% $25,846
29 Texas State University 9 0% $23,130
30 Ohio State University-Main Campus 8 0% $27,367
31 Le Moyne College 8 1% $51,100
32 University at Buffalo 8 0% $27,758
33 Columbia University in the City of New York 8 0% $76,856
34 The University of Montana 7 0% $20,966
35 University of Denver 7 0% $67,656
36 Stony Brook University 6 0% $26,091
37 Northern Michigan University 5 0% $24,187
38 Northern State University 5 1% $21,826
39 University of Northern Iowa 5 0% $20,934
40 Sterling College 5 19% $50,900
41 New Mexico State University-Main Campus 4 0% $21,380
42 Castleton University 4 1% $25,316
43 Kent State University at Kent 4 0% $25,886
44 Franklin College 4 2% $46,156
45 Georgetown College 4 1% $51,930
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3 0% $23,811
47 Lewis and Clark Community College 3 0% $4,560
48 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 3 0% $36,652
49 University of Delaware 2 0% $29,342
50 Northwest Nazarene University 2 0% $40,890
51 Michigan Technological University 2 0% $29,969
52 Olivet Nazarene University 2 0% $47,670
53 University of Chicago 2 0% $78,555
54 College of the Ozarks 2 1% $30,220
55 Washington University in St Louis 2 0% $74,361
56 Greensboro College 1 1% $42,440
57 Molloy College 1 0% $51,856
58 Christian Brothers University 1 0% $46,036
59 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1 0% $30,298
60 The University of Montana-Western 1 0% $20,991
61 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 1 0% $32,443
62 Cornell University 1 0% $73,904
63 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 1 0% $31,510

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.