by our College Data Analytics TeamStudents interested in population biology, consider exploring 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.
These majors prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of population biology, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. They are ranked 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 |
| Systematic Biology/Biological Systematics | 18 |
As a more focused area within Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, population biology shares its foundations with the other majors in that field.
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