2025 Best Ecology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast 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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for ecology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 76 bachelor's degrees in ecology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

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

More Ways to Rank Ecology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Ecology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Ecology

1

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

64 Annual Graduates

University of Georgia is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in ecology. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Athens.More information about a bachelor’s in ecology from University of Georgia

2

Augusta University
Augusta, GA

10 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in ecology has to check out Augusta University. Augusta University is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Augusta.More information about a bachelor’s in ecology from Augusta University

Best Ecology Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Tennessee	460	2
North Carolina	453	0
Georgia	453	57
Mississippi	275	0

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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	798
Environmental Biology	49
Conservation Biology	21
Evolutionary Biology	16
Aquatic Biology/Limnology	6
Other Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	3

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.