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.