Natural Resources Conservation at San Francisco State University

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

SFSU is located in San Francisco, California and has a total student population of 27,349. Of the 6,627 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University in 2021, 73 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.

SFSU Natural Resources Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Conservation

SFSU Natural Resources Conservation Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks conservation programs across the country. The following shows how SFSU performed in these rankings.

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 SFSU 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
Best Value Natural Resources Conservation Schools	63
	71

Earnings of SFSU Conservation Graduates

The median salary of conservation students who receive their bachelor's degree at SFSU is $34,794. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 10% higher than the national average of $31,602 for all conservation bachelor's degree recipients.

Conservation Student Demographics at SFSU

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

SFSU Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 73 conservation majors earned their bachelor's degree from SFSU. Of these graduates, 37% were men and 63% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% 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 Francisco State University with a bachelor's in conservation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	23
White	20
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

SFSU 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 CA, the home state for San Francisco 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 Briantrejo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.