Natural Resources Conservation at University of California - San Diego

If you are interested in studying natural resources conservation, you may want to check out the program at University of California - San Diego. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and has a total student population of 39,576. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 83 students received a bachelor's degree in conservation from UCSD.

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.

UCSD Natural Resources Conservation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Conservation

UCSD Natural Resources Conservation Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The conservation major at UCSD 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
	175
Best Value Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	188

Earnings of UCSD Conservation Graduates

The median salary of conservation students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCSD is $29,140. 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 UCSD

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

UCSD Natural Resources Conservation Bachelor’s Program

Of the 83 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Natural Resources Conservation from UCSD in 2020-2021, 37% were men and 63% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% 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 University of California - San Diego with a bachelor's in conservation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	22
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

UCSD 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 University of California - San Diego.

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 Znode at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.