Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the relationships and interactions across levels of biological organization--genes and genomes, organisms, species, and ecosystems--and how these change over time, including the origins and history of species, the processes by which biodiversity has evolved, and the ecological context in which this evolution takes place. Includes instruction in animal, plant, population, functional, evolutionary, and ecosystem ecology; ecological and evolutionary genetics; molecular evolution; population and conservation biology; animal and plant diversity; biometry; and scientific and research ethics.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 42 institutions across the United States, with a total of 2421 degrees awarded annually.

Bachelor's Degrees

620

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

126

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,614

awards given

Top Schools for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	645
2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	147
3	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	147
4	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	135
5	Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO	132
6	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	132
7	The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	93
8	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	84
9	Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI	81
10	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	81
11	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	78
12	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	69
13	Saint Cloud State University Saint Cloud, MN	63
14	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	51
15	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	42
16	Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN	36
17	Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ	36
18	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	27
19	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	24
20	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	24
21	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	21
22	Colby College Waterville, ME	21
23	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	21
24	Florida Southern College Lakeland, FL	21
25	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	18
26	Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI	18
27	Brown University Providence, RI	18
28	Rice University Houston, TX	18
29	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	18
30	Trinity University San Antonio, TX	15
31	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	15
32	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	15
33	Northeastern University Boston, MA	15
34	Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH	12
35	Iowa State University Ames, IA	12
36	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	9
37	Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI	6
38	University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA	6
39	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	6
40	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	3
41	Loyola University New Orleans New Orleans, LA	3
42	Pitzer College Claremont, CA	3