Graduate students at Cornell are admitted through Graduate Fields, not directly into departments. In many cases, departments and Graduate Fields are virtually congruent, but this is not the case for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. All faculty members within our Department are members of the Field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and most students housed in the Department are admitted through this Field. However, the Graduate Field of E&EB includes a substantial number of faculty in other departments, and not all students of faculty in our Department are in the Field of E&EB. Over the past several years, students in the Fields of Genetics and Development, Entomology, Zoology, Science and Technology Studies, Applied Mathematics, and History have had E&EB faculty as major advisors and have been supported by Department teaching assistantships.

E&EB has been fortunate to attract a consistently outstanding group of applicants, and many of the top-rated students elect to come to Cornell each year. Moreover, our Ph.D. students have been very successful in securing postdoctoral positions and academic jobs. We currently have 75 graduate students affiliated with faculty in the Department, most of whom are housed in Corson Hall.

For more information about graduate programs at Cornell (and what needs to be done to apply) please refer to information provided by the individual Graduate Fields.