2024 Best Ecology Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on majoring in ecology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #416 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for ecology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 9 degrees in ecology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Ecology Schools List

Pick Your Ecology Degree Level

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 North Carolina list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Ecology in North Carolina

Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the ecology degree levels they offer.

Top North Carolina Schools in Ecology

1

Duke University
Durham, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

40.0% Growth in Graduates

It's difficult to beat Duke University if you wish to pursue a degree in ecology. Duke is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Durham.More information about a degree in ecology from Duke University

2

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in ecology needs to take a look at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in ecology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Best Ecology Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Ecology Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	715	33
Georgia	690	65
Virginia	630	2
Tennessee	624	17
Mississippi	501	0

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Ecology Related Rankings by Major

One of 11 majors within the Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology area of study, Ecology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Marine Biology	106
Epidemiology	41
Environmental Biology	13
Conservation Biology	3
Evolutionary Biology	3

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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.