Natural Resources Conservation at San Diego State University

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

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and approximately 36,334 students attend the school each year.

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.

SDSU Natural Resources Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Conservation

SDSU Natural Resources Conservation Rankings

The conservation major at SDSU 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.

Conservation Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the conservation majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of conservation bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical conservation bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in conservation at SDSU are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% 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 San Diego State University with a bachelor's in conservation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	54
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	20

Concentrations Within Natural Resources Conservation

Natural Resources Conservation majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at San Diego State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Environmental Studies	83
Environmental Science	26

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 CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	12,750	$91,890
Conservation Scientists	1,990	$75,980
Environmental Science Professors	520	$135,840
Foresters	430	$80,030
Forestry & Conservation Science Professors	110	$133,470

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 Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.