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.
| A major in Ecology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 50
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Ecology among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
|  | Unity College Unity, ME | 8 (8.3%) |  |  | |
|  | Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science Paul Smiths, NY | 5 (5.9%) |  |  | |
|  | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 39 (3.4%) |  |  | |
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|  | Northern State University Aberdeen, SD | 8 (2.6%) |  |  | |
|  | Connecticut College New London, CT | 12 (2.4%) |  | - | |
|  | Brevard College Brevard, NC | 2 (1.9%) |  |  | |
|  | Iowa State University Ames, IA | 77 (1.8%) |  |  | |
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|  | University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD | 5 (1.1%) |  |  | |
|  | University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA | 39 (1.1%) |  |  | |
|  | Saint Francis University Loretto, PA | 3 (1.0%) |  |  | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.