Ecology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #416 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of ecology. Combined, these schools handed out 134 degrees in ecology to qualified students.
Your choice of ecology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Ecology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Ecology Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of ecology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in ecology has to look into University of California - Santa Cruz. Located in the city of Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 13th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 58 ecology students who graduated with this degree at UC Santa Cruz in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of California - Los Angeles if you want to pursue a degree in ecology. UCLA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #28 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCLA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 22 ecology students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in ecology needs to take a look at University of California - Davis. UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Davis. This university ranks 10th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 42 ecology students who graduated with this degree at UC Davis in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of ecology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Ecology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
