Best Colleges for Anthropology

Some college majors naturally flow directly into a related career—this is not typically the case for those who major in anthropology. In fact, at many universities, anthropology majors ultimately pursue a graduate degree in any number of fields. The schools that made our list have highly-respected anthropology programs that are favored by top graduate schools across the United States. These programs also produce graduates ready for the workforce in any industry, possessing universally applicable strengths as writers, researchers, and culturally-literate citizens.

Click the links below for more information about each college’s anthropology program. Click here to read our methodology.

Amherst College

Barnard College

Beloit College

Binghamton University (SUNY)

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brown University

Bryn Mawr College

Case Western Reserve University

College of William and Mary

Columbia University

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Emory University

George Washington University

Grinnell College

Harvard University

Kenyon College

Macalester College

New York University

Northwestern University

Oberlin College

Penn State University

Princeton University

Stanford University

Tufts University

Tulane University

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Chicago

University of Florida

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Texas at Austin

University of Washington

Vassar College

Washington University in St. Louis

Wesleyan University

Yale University