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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The National Research Council assessed programs according to 21 different criteria. Here are the NRC’s five major ratings summarizing those criteria. For a detailed explanation, see our FAQ.

S-Rank: Programs are ranked highly if they are strong in the criteria that scholars say are most important.
Research: Derived from faculty publications, citation rates, grants, and awards.
Students: Derived from students’ completion rates, financial aid, and other criteria.
Diversity: Reflects gender balance, ethnic diversity, and the proportion of international students.
R-Rank: Programs are ranked highly if they have similar features to programs viewed by faculty as top-notch.

Institution, program	S-Rank High	S-Rank Low	Research High	Research Low	Students High	Students Low	Diversity High	Diversity Low	R-Rank High	R-Rank Low
Arizona State U. Biology	42	70	37	78	25	69	58	80	16	43
Arizona State U. Plant Biology	72	92	30	80	93	94	22	54	37	83
Bingham- tonton U. (SUNY) Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	62	89	50	86	12	74	83	91	44	69
Brown U. BIOMED: Ecological and Evolutionary Biology	20	59	26	70	4	35	14	40	33	57
Colorado State U. Ecology	7	41	4	29	30	73	38	69	13	44
Columbia U. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	9	48	29	83	23	74	1	3	65	88
Cornell U. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	22	62	13	53	49	80	33	65	15	48
Dartmouth College Biology-EEB	8	40	10	48	2	39	29	62	13	43
Drexel U. Environmental Science	32	68	71	93	7	62	7	23	8	37
Duke U. Ecology	3	10	2	10	3	48	83	90	1	4
Emory U. Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution (PBEE)	11	51	9	45	17	74	32	67	26	56
Florida State U. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	56	85	17	68	62	87	85	91	59	78
George Washing- ton U. Biological Sciences	68	91	56	91	75	91	1	6	76	91
Harvard U. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology	2	8	2	11	5	41	26	55	3	14
Indiana U. at Blooming- ton Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	3	14	2	17	12	54	7	25	3	14
Iowa State U. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	58	86	37	83	44	80	15	44	40	62
Kent State U. Main Campus Biological Sciences - Ecology	88	94	74	94	78	92	33	71	39	67
Michigan State U. Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior	12	50	16	60	8	47	45	74	4	21
Michigan State U. Fisheries and Wildlife	32	69	40	86	21	59	25	54	44	68
Michigan State U. Zoology	21	57	49	84	8	52	24	59	15	43
Mississippi State U. Wildlife and Fisheries (degree: Ph.D. in Forest Resources)	48	87	41	87	1	10	87	93	60	90
Montana State U. at Bozeman Fish & Wild Life Biology	85	93	46	88	70	89	91	94	85	94
Ohio State U. Main Campus Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology	40	76	38	80	8	64	29	60	35	62
Oklahoma State U. Main Campus Zoology	44	76	42	85	23	74	1	7	61	89
Old Dominion U. Ecological Science	57	85	35	80	72	90	73	84	60	79
Oregon State U. Fisheries Science	51	88	22	74	40	88	84	90	76	92
Oregon State U. Wildlife Science	63	90	39	86	72	92	67	83	69	87
Oregon State U. Zoology	10	44	12	49	41	82	18	53	21	48
Oregon State U. Environmental Sciences	57	83	80	94	5	45	2	7	78	92
Pennsyl- vania State U. Ecology	24	62	19	62	15	61	62	83	30	56
Princeton U. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	1	4	1	4	4	39	44	74	2	14
Purdue U. Main Campus Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology	31	65	47	80	59	89	55	82	52	76
Purdue U. Main Campus Wildlife and Aquatic Sciences	6	36	6	47	51	86	42	68	70	91
Rice U. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	12	42	16	52	6	49	2	9	45	70
Rutgers U. at New Brunswick Ecology and Evolution	48	73	29	65	44	80	38	66	20	46
San Diego State U. and U. of California at Davis Ecology	16	56	18	71	2	29	20	57	25	71
State U. of New York at Stony Brook Ecology and Evolution	24	61	19	61	18	64	35	62	32	55
Syracuse U. Main Campus Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	69	90	60	91	35	86	74	85	61	79
Tulane U. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	70	89	65	90	66	89	68	85	72	89
U. of Alabama Biological Sciences	53	84	56	90	3	43	11	33	46	73
U. of Alaska at Fairbanks Biosciences	30	67	22	71	53	84	25	64	36	63
U. of Arizona Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	8	37	10	44	30	77	13	40	19	46
U. of California at Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy and Management	4	20	11	55	22	68	7	21	4	19
U. of California at Berkeley Integrative Biology	9	36	12	47	16	65	17	41	3	17
U. of California at Davis Animal Behavior	51	78	59	91	52	83	2	12	9	41
U. of California at Davis Ecology	5	28	7	43	8	51	18	47	1	4
U. of California at Davis Population Biology	4	24	3	25	8	58	53	80	4	20
U. of California at Irvine Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	7	34	6	31	6	52	10	30	11	36
U. of California at Los Angeles Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	27	60	22	68	24	72	6	19	14	42
U. of California at Riverside Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology	12	45	9	44	9	59	23	56	18	47
U. of California at Santa Barbara Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology	9	44	9	44	16	63	60	81	7	24
U. of California at Santa Cruz Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	10	48	8	47	29	74	11	38	21	50
U. of California at Santa Cruz Environmental Studies	54	80	61	90	19	65	19	49	34	58
U. of Chicago Ecology and Evolution	2	10	3	20	1	17	77	86	5	20
U. of Chicago Evolutionary Biology	35	63	49	83	2	24	21	53	12	38
U. of Colorado at Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	11	50	8	48	13	55	4	15	19	48
U. of Connec- ticut Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D.	22	60	20	67	5	40	24	56	14	38
U. of Florida Interdisciplinary Ecology	58	85	49	88	43	81	34	63	76	91
U. of Florida Wildlife Ecology and Conservation	67	91	61	93	50	84	24	51	80	93
U. of Florida Zoology	21	63	9	47	29	76	51	76	43	67
U. of Georgia Ecology	17	60	28	76	31	76	66	84	26	56
U. of Houston main campus Evolutionary Biology and Ecology	55	88	27	81	69	91	8	25	91	94
U. of Idaho Biology	12	53	13	60	21	70	64	83	39	70
U. of Idaho Fish and Wildlife	12	55	20	71	3	51	57	79	65	86
U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	19	57	15	58	13	68	34	62	20	49
U. of Kansas Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	14	49	21	64	4	36	12	35	6	26
U. of Louisiana at Lafayette Environmental and Evolutionary Biology	67	89	64	92	14	57	16	47	65	82
U. of Louisville Biology	67	89	81	94	31	75	9	30	42	67
U. of Maryland at College Park Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics	12	50	11	55	20	61	8	31	10	36
U. of Massachu- setts at Amherst Organismic and Evolutionary Biology	41	76	41	85	13	63	5	19	38	64
U. of Massachu- setts at Amherst Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation	85	93	58	90	87	93	90	94	86	94
U. of Memphis Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	63	89	64	92	16	62	88	94	69	89
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	14	45	21	57	19	71	28	58	12	35
U. of Minnesota- Twin Cities Conservation Biology	66	88	66	92	29	73	12	39	27	55
U. of Minnesota- Twin Cities Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	5	28	3	19	45	85	13	41	11	36
U. of Missouri at Columbia Fisheries and Wildlife	24	69	10	60	18	66	49	77	71	88
U. of Montana at Missoula Organismal Biology & Ecology	13	54	9	48	11	53	45	73	44	73
U. of Nebraska at Lincoln Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	37	67	73	93	3	32	7	26	45	72
U. of Nevada at Reno Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology	71	92	60	93	77	92	51	79	46	73
U. of New Hampshire Natural Resources and Environmental Studies	71	92	22	72	91	94	48	74	49	81
U. of New Hampshire Zoology	93	94	89	94	87	93	14	41	71	92
U. of New Mexico Main Campus Biology	16	54	9	43	51	83	25	58	10	33
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ecology	20	57	29	66	27	74	16	52	23	50
U. of Southern California Marine Environmental Biology	11	49	16	61	2	35	36	66	7	33
U. of Tennessee Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	33	67	35	77	6	57	65	83	42	65
U. of Texas at Austin Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	12	51	7	38	61	87	51	80	11	30
U. of Toledo Earth, Ecology, and Environmental Science	73	92	55	91	45	84	16	44	83	94
U. of Vermont Natural Resources	28	67	41	87	3	33	53	80	77	92
U. of Wisconsin at Madison Wildlife Ecology	26	63	25	68	50	85	38	71	56	77
U. of Wyoming Zoology & Physiology	60	88	42	87	56	87	88	93	69	87
Utah State U. Ecology (WS)	21	74	6	61	14	77	83	92	60	82
Washing- ton State U. Zoology	43	78	23	76	18	69	56	82	45	67
Washing- ton U. in St. Louis Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology	1	2	1	9	1	12	58	81	1	11
Yale U. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	5	24	2	17	8	66	55	78	9	33
Methodology: This interactive tool is based on rankings developed by the NRC. For a complete explanation of the methods the research council used, go to its site; registration may be required.

Doctoral Programs by the Numbers

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology