Ecology

STEM • Biological And Biomedical Sciences

What is it about?

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.

Numbers at a glance

266th
Popular nationwide
344
Search Rank on O's List
40
Colleges offer it
793
Graduates (2018-19)
Men
334
Women
459

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O's Insights on Ecology

  • Major has been decreasing in popularity over the last 15 years.
  • 81% of graduates come from public universities.

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