by our College Data Analytics TeamIf you are interested in environmental biology, you may also want to explore other closely related fields of study. The sections below cover 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 environmental biology, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Ordered by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Physiology | 3 | 166 |
| Entomology | 3 | 452 |
| Anatomy | 2 | 902 |
| Animal Genetics | 2 | 59 |
| 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 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 3,053 |
| Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography | 2,375 |
| Ecology | 1,201 |
| Conservation Biology | 592 |
| 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 |
As a more focused area within Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, environmental biology sits alongside related programs in that field.
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