2025 Best Ecology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region

a bachelor's degree in ecology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #296 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Ecology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 bachelor's degrees in ecology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to ecology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other ecology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized ecology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for ecology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Ecology Schools

The ecology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Ecology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Ecology in the New England Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in ecology.

Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Ecology

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

University of Connecticut is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in ecology. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the town of Storrs.More information about a bachelor’s in ecology from University of Connecticut

2

Connecticut College
New London, CT

27 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in ecology needs to look into Connecticut College. Conn College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the small city of New London.More information about a bachelor’s in ecology from Connecticut College

Best Ecology Colleges by State

Explore the best ecology schools for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	581	4
Connecticut	341	58
Vermont	289	8

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Ecology Related Rankings by Major

One of 12 majors within the Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology area of study, Ecology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Ecology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Marine Biology	235
Evolutionary Biology	89
Conservation Biology	58
Environmental Biology	14
Evolutionary Biology	14

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel. More about our data sources and methodologies.