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Environmental Studies at Colby College

Environmental Studies at Colby College

If you plan to study environmental studies, take a look at what Colby College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Environmental Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Colby Environmental Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Ecosystem Studies

Colby Environmental Studies Rankings

The ecosystem studies major at Colby is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Environmental Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ecosystem Studies Student Demographics at Colby

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ecosystem studies majors at Colby College.

Colby Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of ecosystem studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women.

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About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in ecosystem studies at Colby are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's in ecosystem studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 14
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

Careers That Ecosystem Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in ecosystem studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation Jobs in ME Average Salary in ME
Environmental Scientists and Specialists 440 $67,390
Environmental Science Professors 50 $66,830

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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