A degree in ecology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #416 out of 1506 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 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for ecology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 107 degrees in ecology annually.
The ecology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Ecology rankings. For our Best Overall Ecology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 New York list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the ecology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Columbia University in the City of New York is a great option for students pursuing a degree in ecology. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 14 ecology students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available.
Cornell University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in ecology. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were roughly 3 ecology students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in ecology needs to look into New York University. Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 56 ecology students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent data year.
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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The ecology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Ecology rankings. For our Best Overall Ecology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
