by our College Data Analytics TeamStudents interested in animal physiology, take a look at 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.
Programs here prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of animal physiology, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. They are ranked by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 4 | 1,201 |
| Evolutionary Biology | 4 | 176 |
| Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography | 4 | 2,375 |
| Anatomy | 3 | 902 |
| Animal Genetics | 3 | 59 |
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 3 | — |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Other | 3 | 316 |
| Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other | 3 | 4,612 |
| Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 3 | 89,827 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 3 | 250 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Zoology/Animal Biology | 1,913 |
| Wildlife Biology | 576 |
| Entomology | 452 |
| Animal Behavior and Ethology | 267 |
| Zoology/Animal Biology, Other | 34 |
As a more focused area within Zoology/Animal Biology, animal physiology sits alongside related programs in that field.
More about our data sources and methodologies.