by our College Data Analytics TeamIf you are interested in biological systematics, you may also want to explore other closely related fields of study. Here you will find majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
The majors below prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of biological systematics, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | 2 | 902 |
| Animal Genetics | 2 | 59 |
| Animal Physiology | 2 | 166 |
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2 | — |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Other | 2 | 316 |
| Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other | 2 | 4,612 |
| Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 2 | 89,827 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 2 | 250 |
| Biometry/Biometrics | 2 | 185 |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 3,869 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 3,053 |
| Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography | 2,375 |
| Ecology | 1,201 |
| Conservation Biology | 592 |
| Environmental Biology | 449 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other | 311 |
| Evolutionary Biology | 176 |
| Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 151 |
| Aquatic Biology/Limnology | 119 |
| Population Biology | 10 |
Part of the broader field of Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, biological systematics connects to the wider programs in that field.
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