<p>I am looking for suggestions on universities that have good anthro. schools, currently I'm looking at UW-Milwaukee. I'm not sure of the facility here, or anywhere for that matter, all input is appreciated, thanks.</p>
<p>I hope you can find someone with specific information for you. Are you interested in a particular field of study within anthropology?</p>
<p>When doing research looking for archaeology (usually within anth departments), we looked quite a bit at web sites, seeing what courses are available, the CVs of the faculty, any digs they sponsor, museums on campus, etc. We also looked at whether there was a graduate program in the subject at the school.</p>
<p>I know nothing about UW-Milwaukee. In the course of research, we ran across UW-La Crosse, which has a good archaeology program. However, the program only has limited spots available; someone has to graduate or leave and then students already at the university compete for the opening. My daughter didn't want to get into something like that.</p>
<p>What are your other criteria for a college? I think you are going to find lots of anth departments. But if you have an idea about location, size, public versus private, etc., you can input whatever criteria you have into a college search engine like at <a href="http://www.petersons.com%5B/url%5D">www.petersons.com</a> and come up with a preliminary and workable list of schools. Then you hit the college web sites.</p>
<p>You might try googling to see if there is an American Association of Anthropologists or some group like that. If so, it may actually have a list of programs or other useful information for you.</p>
<p>Gourman Report Undergrad Anthro:
Michigan
Chicago
Berkeley
Penn
Arizona
Stanford
Yale
UCLA
Harvard
Northwestern
Texas Austin
New Mexico
Cornell
Illinois UC
Columbia
UC SB
U Washington
U Mass Amherst
Wisconsin
U Fla
Penn St
Pitt
Duke
Rutgers NB
Indiana Bloom
Hawaii Manoa
UC Irvine
UNC CH
UVA
SUNY Buffalo
Arizona St
Brandeis
UC Davis
Colorado Boulder
Tulane
NYU
Princeton
Washington St Louis
U Conn
Bryn Mawr
U Oregon
UC Riverside
U Minnesota
Brown
Southern Methodist
U Kansas
Missouri Columbia</p>
<p>others mentioned in Ruggs
SUNY Albany
Barnard
Case Western
Colorado C
Dartmouth
Grinnell
Lafayette
Macalester
New Coll (Fla)
Pitzer
Pomona
Rice
Skidmore
Smith
U of the South
Vanderbilt
Beloit
Earlham
Hamline
Hofstra
U Maryland
U Rhode Island
St Mary's Maryland
U Tulsa
Wash St
U Wisconsin Milwaukee</p>
<p>I am an Anthropology and Spanish major at Transylvania University. Transy offered the largest variety of specialized anthropology courses within the group of schools I looked at. I first narrowed my choices to liberal arts schools with less than 3,000 undergrads. My suggestion is to get an idea of what sort of school you would prefer - size, location (near home or far away, urban or rural), private or public, and then among your top 10 or so schools look at a course catalogue and find out what they offer in terms of anthropology courses.
Hope this helps!</p>
<p>There's plenty of good anthropology schools out there. As I recall, UW-Milwaukee has a strong focus on cultural anthropology and archaeology. I may be confusing it with another UW, so double check. Here's some great advice about how to evaluate programs. </p>
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<ul> <li>department accreditation by a professional association related to the subject, </li> <li>faculty size compared to the number of graduating majors in the department </li> <li>where grads of the department go on to graduate school or employment</li> <li>any recent or pending changes in funding for the department (search the school's press releases, and the student newspaper archives), </li> <li>special facilities or capabilities of the department (department library, research facilities, special equipment, etc.)</li> <li>how many prof's in the department are tenured, how many are full-time, how many are just visiting or are not tenured. </li> <li>the philosophy or subject approach of the department. This can take some digging, and you may have to put some divergent pieces together to see if the department's goals/philosophies are a fit with yours. Two equally sized departments at different schools can have very different approaches.</li> <li>I also like to get a hold of the actual course schedules (not the catalog which merely lists courses that may or may not be offered on a regular basis) for a few semesters and see how many classes the department typically offers, how large or small they are, and whether they fill up quickly or are over-subscribed. A department is only good if you can get into classes without too much trouble. </li> </ul>
<p>Another piece of advice that I also find helpful came from the Philosophical Gourmet site, which ranks Philosophy graduate programs but also has a section discussing how to evaluate undergrad programs, is to (1) find the rankings for top graduate level programs (these are usually more readily available) and then (2) look at the faculty bio's and see how many received their doctorates from the top grad programs. Of course, at large universities, you'll also need to find out how many of those faculty actually teach undergraduates.
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