<p>Wondering which schools are best known for anthropology (as well as geography - perhaps offer dual major?) and offer good/great study abroad opportunities, internships and grad school placement. Thank you...</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate anthropology:</p>
<p>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>NRC grad ranking:</p>
<p>Thanks - an interesting list, but I'm not seeing any LACs? I was actually thinking that one of the top programs might be at a school like Vassar/Williams/Amherst, etc</p>
<p>I don't think they're included in Gourman rankings (and obviously not in grad rankings). You could search the forums for Rugg's recommendations for anthropology -- that should yield a bunch of LACs.</p>
<p>Ok..I'll try that - thanks</p>
<p>Anthropology Wms4 Pom1 Wes22 Grin14 Bow23 Amh9 Welsy10 Ham8 Vsr17 Dvdn13 Hav15 W&L2
Anthropology Smi24 Occ2 Scrp5 Clrdo16 Trin7 Bate9 Colb10 MtH19 Mclstr20 Barn26 Ken13 Obr5 Bryn14 Buck15</p>
<p>abbreviations followe by number of bach grads last year</p>
<p>Rugg's recommendations for anthropology.</p>
<p>Albany SUNY.
Barnard.
Brandeis.
Bryn Mawr.
Buffalo SUNY.
Berkeley.
UCLA.
Case Western Reserve.
University of Chicago.
Colorado College.
Columbia.
Dartmouth.
Duke.
University of Florida.
Grinnell.
Harvard.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lafayette.
McAllister.
University of Michigan.
New College Florida.
Northwestern.
University of Pennsylvania.
Pitzer.
Pomona.
Rice.
Skidmore.
Smith.
University of the South.
Stanford.
Vanderbilt.
Washington University in St. Louis.
Yale</p>
<p>what on earth is the gourman report?</p>
<p>I do like being above harvard though. shove it, crimson</p>
<p>collegehelp-
can you post the Ruggs list of colleges they way they are grouped in the book? In other words, not just listing them alphabetically, but in groups, the way they are "ranked" in Ruggs.
then it is a little easier to compare the Gourman and Ruggs lists.</p>
<p>The Gourman report is a series of very detailed books published every 10 years that rank undergraduate and graduate colleges by the majors offered. The last versions were published in 1997. An updated series was supposed to be published in 2007.
Here is some info from CC
The</a> Gourman Report</p>
<p>I assume this question is directed at the question of which school is a good school for social anthropology. Physical anthropology, which is fascinating as well, is also encompassed by anthro departments but is quite different in content. I would bet that the anthro powerhouses Berkeley and Chicago are strong as heck in both -- I know for a fact Berkeley's physical anthro. is top-of-the-heap and I can't imagine Chicago's isn't -- but I would imagine some schools are really strong in one and not in the other. Check it out when looking at the rankings....</p>
<p>The four I hear the most about are (in alphabetical order):
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Here are other universities I hear have excellent Anthropology departments:
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Harvard University
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of Arizona
University of Florida
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>If you want an LAC with good anthropology, Barnard is a great choice.</p>
<p>I hear the most about Arizona, actually.</p>
<p>Yeah, I heard about UofA as top 3 in anthro.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is fantastic. Study abroad anthro program, thesis research grants up to 10K for thesis research, incredibly small classes with great professors. Incredible grad placement.</p>
<p>It wont appear on any “Top Schools” lists but State University of New York at Plattsburgh is a great value choice for Anthropology. It has the feel of a LAC but a fraction of the cost and several members of the Anthro faculty are actually world renowned. For example, a professor pulled strings and arranged for me work for the Tibetan government in India while a student there. The biggest pro is that it is teaching-oriented with a lot of personal time with professors and the biggest con is its lack of name recognition. </p>
<p>I took graduate courses in Tennessee and attend law school in Vermont- Plattsburgh had a good name for both admissions processes. I imagine there would be elitist bias if a grad would apply to a top tiered Anthro PhD program though.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you are considering a PhD (you mentioned “grad school”), but if you are, check out the PhD Productivity Ranking, which shows mostly LACs.
[REED</a> COLLEGE PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]REED”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)
For Anthro: Bryn Mawr, Beloit, Grinnell, Reed, U Chicago, Pomona, Wesleyan, Marlboro, Haverfod, Harvard
For Social Sciences overall: Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Grinnell, Reed, U Chicago, Harvard, Pomona, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Macalester
These would all be good preparation for grad school.</p>
<p>
PhD productivity data does NOT correlate to department quality. Much more useful data would be the number of students applying, the number of students admitted, and the schools/programs to which those students were admitted. A school sending two students to Harvard anthro is much more impressive than a school sending four students to Wichita State.</p>
<p>The anthropology program (if you can call it such, with only one professor!) at Marlboro, for example, pales in comparison to that of virtually any other reputable LAC - let alone any generic university.</p>
<p>If you are interested in a LAC, I have always heard that Beloit has a very strong anthropology department.</p>
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<p>Perhaps not. But there may be some other correlation going on.</p>
<p>Marlboro is an unusual college. It emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to the liberal arts. I don’t think a college necessarily needs a strong, highly specialized department of anthropology, sociology or linguistics for its students to be able to succeed in related graduate programs.</p>
<p>I agree, it would be nice if we had college PhD production data at a greater level of detail. Unfortunately, we don’t. Not easily accessible anyway. But I doubt that most graduates of Reed, Grinnell, Pomona, etc. are doing their graduate work at random, obscure universities.</p>