by our College Data Analytics TeamThose considering conservation biology, take a look at other closely related fields of study. Below you will find majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
These majors prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of conservation biology, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Ordered 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 |
| Environmental Biology | 449 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other | 311 |
| Evolutionary Biology | 176 |
| Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 151 |
| Aquatic Biology/Limnology | 119 |
| Systematic Biology/Biological Systematics | 18 |
| Population Biology | 10 |
Part of the broader field of Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, conservation biology connects to the wider programs in that field.
More about our data sources and methodologies.