Ecology
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Early Career Income
$61,451
Lifetime Income
$3.25M
Unemployment rate
2.7%
Female share
57.7%
Occupation concentration
32.7%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
20.6%
% who double-major
31.5%
BA Graduates from 2024
4,270
+3.1% vs 2023
How Ecology compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
32nd
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 32% of majors
49th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 49% of majors
6th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 6% of majors
Top occupations
- Biological Scientists
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Ecology.
- Ecology
- Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
- Environmental Biology
- Population Biology
- Conservation Biology
- Systematic Biology/Biological Systematics
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other
- Molecular Medicine
- Geobiology
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology