Natural Resources Conservation at Macalester College

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

Macalester is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and has a total student population of 2,049. Of the 585 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in 2021, 19 of them were natural resources conservation majors.

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

Macalester Natural Resources Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Conservation

Macalester Natural Resources Conservation Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the conservation progam at Macalester compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The conservation major at Macalester is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Natural Resources Conservation. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	80
Best Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	88
Most Focused Natural Resources Conservation Schools	104
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	222
Most Popular Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	226
Best Value Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	235
Best Value Natural Resources Conservation Schools	251
Most Popular Natural Resources Conservation Schools	271

Earnings of Macalester Conservation Graduates

The median salary of conservation students who receive their bachelor's degree at Macalester is $26,444. This is less than $31,602, which is the national average of all conservation majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Conservation Student Demographics at Macalester

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the conservation majors at Macalester College.

Macalester Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Program

Of the 19 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in conservation from Macalester in 2021, 42% were men and 58% were women. The typical conservation bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% men. So male students are more repesented at Macalester since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in conservation at Macalester are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its conservation bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Macalester also has a doctoral program available in conservation. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Conservation Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	1,780	$74,880
Foresters	390	$64,330
Conservation Scientists	390	$72,650
Environmental Science Professors	100	$100,840

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Appraiser under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.