<p>I was wondering how good the Anthropology department was at the following schools. I am specifically into Biological Anthropology (and in the future, primatology!) Does any one know the details on the department?</p>
<p>Wellesley
Smith
Mount Holyoke
Barnard
Bryn Mawr</p>
<p>There are few tools available to assess the quality of individual undergraduate departments, especially at LACs. Browse the online course descriptions and faculty bios to compare coverage of the areas you want. </p>
<p>The following list shows the number of alumni of those 5 schools who earned PhDs in anthro from 2006 through 2010:</p>
<p>School … Number of Earned Doctorates
Bryn Mawr College 11
Barnard College 7<br>
Mount Holyoke College 7
Wellesley College 6
Smith College 4
(Source: <a href=“https://webcaspar.nsf.gov/[/url]”>https://webcaspar.nsf.gov/</a>)</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr has the advantage of the consortium arrangement with Haverford, Swarthmore, and Penn.</p>
<p>They all have cross registration agreements, so you may want to check the offerings at the cross registration schools, as well as the convenience of doing so (distance, academic calendars, administrative limitations, etc.). Besides as noted above:</p>
<p>Barnard -> Columbia
MH, Smith -> University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, each other
Wellesley -> Brandeis, MIT</p>
<p>wow, thank you!
I don’t really understand how to maneuver the site (the webcaspar.sf.gov) for specific schools. How did you get the numbers specific for each school? I would like to check out some other school numbers as well (:</p>