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Overview for Ecology

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.

Careers for Ecology Majors

A major in Ecology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided.

Colleges Offering a Major in Ecology

Top 50 U.S. Colleges with the highest percentage of Ecology among the 2006-2007 graduating class.

AddInfoCollege Name Degrees Awarded/
Percentage
SelectivityTuition
Unity College
Unity, ME
 8
(8.3%)
Less Selective$19,595 
Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science
Paul Smiths, NY
 5
(5.9%)
Less Selective$20,380 
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
 39
(3.4%)
Most Selective$34,290 
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Northern State University
Aberdeen, SD
 8
(2.6%)
Less Selective$10,674 
Connecticut College
New London, CT
 12
(2.4%)
Highly Selective- 
Brevard College
Brevard, NC
 2
(1.9%)
Moderately Selective$18,750 
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
 77
(1.8%)
Less Selective$16,514 
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, MD
 5
(1.1%)
Moderately Selective$12,555 
University of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
 39
(1.1%)
Less Selective$19,584 
Saint Francis University
Loretto, PA
 3
(1.0%)
Less Selective$23,494 
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.