Natural Resource Management at University of California - Santa Cruz

If you plan to study natural resource management, take a look at what University of California - Santa Cruz has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UC Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz, California and approximately 19,161 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Natural Resource Management section at the bottom of this page.

UC Santa Cruz Natural Resource Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Resource Management

UC Santa Cruz Natural Resource Management Rankings

Resource Management Student Demographics at UC Santa Cruz

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the resource management majors at University of California - Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz Natural Resource Management Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of resource management master's degrees went to men and 56% went to women.

In the resource management master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 22% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Santa Cruz with a master's in resource management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Natural Resource Management

If you plan to be a resource management 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 University of California - Santa Cruz. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy	7

Related Majors

• Natural Resources Conservation

Careers That Resource Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in resource management 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 - Santa Cruz.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	72,680	$101,380
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Firefighters	32,910	$81,580
Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Recreational Protective Service Workers	15,390	$34,430
Police and Detective Supervisors	4,950	$154,430

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 Satyriconi under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.