Natural Resources & Conservation at The University of Alabama

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

UA is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and approximately 37,840 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.

UA Natural Resources & Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Resources & Conservation

UA Natural Resources & Conservation Rankings

The natural resources & conservation major at UA 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 UA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the natural resources & conservation majors at The University of Alabama.

UA Natural Resources & Conservation Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of natural resources & conservation bachelor's degrees went to men and 48% 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 UA since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in natural resources & conservation at UA are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Alabama 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	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Natural Resources & Conservation

If you plan to be a natural resources & conservation major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from The University of Alabama. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Natural Resources Conservation	45

Related Majors

• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Engineering

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 AL, the home state for The University of Alabama.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	11,410	$45,930
Firefighters	5,680	$41,740
Managers	2,110	$106,680
Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Recreational Protective Service Workers	1,240	$19,300
Police and Detective Supervisors	1,160	$68,810

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 Deutschlandreform under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.