Natural Resources & Conservation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What traits are you looking for in a natural resources & conservation school? To help you decide if Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's natural resources & conservation program.

RPI is located in Troy, New York and has a total student population of 7,501.

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.

RPI Natural Resources & Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Resources & Conservation

RPI Natural Resources & Conservation Rankings

The natural resources & conservation major at RPI 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.

Natural Resources & Conservation Student Demographics at RPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the natural resources & conservation majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RPI Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of natural resources & conservation bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical natural resources & conservation bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at RPI since its program graduates 25% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's in natural resources & conservation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Natural Resources & Conservation

Natural Resources & Conservation majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Natural Resources Conservation	3

Related Majors

• Architecture & Related Services
• Engineering Technologies
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics

Careers That Natural Resources & Conservation Grads May Go Into

A degree in natural resources & 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 NY, the home state for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	53,560	$74,860
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Police and Detective Supervisors	12,650	$115,940
Firefighters	11,880	$73,710
Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Recreational Protective Service Workers	7,860	$27,630

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 UpstateNYer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.