<p>Reed has some data on where grads go:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/success.html]LIFE”>Life After Reed - Institutional Research - Reed College]LIFE</a> AFTER REED<a href=“at%20the%20bottom”>/url</a></p>
<p>Maybe someone familiar with the other schools can post.</p>
<p>I am extremely interested in obtaining a masters in cultural anthropology and was wondering which schools had a strong cultural/social anthropology program. So far my list consists of:
Dartmouth
University of Penn.
University of Houston</p>
<p>But i want to be sure these truly have strong anthropology programs and add more great colleges to the list.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Where should I go for grad schooling I want to stuffy the anthropology of aesthetics?</p>
<p>^ Since you identified a rather specialized topic as your area of interest, presumably you know who has published research on that topic. So, with what departments are those researchers affiliated? You should apply to those departments. If you don’t know who has published on that topic, you probably haven’t looked into it enough to choose it as a focus of graduate study.</p>
<p>The OP asked specifically about the intersection of anthropology and geography. Many schools, including most of those already named, have excellent anthropology departments. Fewer have strong geography departments. Geography was deemed to be insufficiently high-academic at many elite universities and was booted out of the curriculum in the latter half of the 20th century. That left some of the top publics as the major bastions of academic geography. But those with the best geography departments don’t correlate very well with those that have the strongest anthro programs. And very few top LACs offer geography at all, while most offer at least some anthro (but sometimes not very much).</p>
<p>One LAC that is very strong in both is Macalester. Vassar is also quite strong in both and offers an interdepartmental concentration in Geography-Anthropology that appears to be just at the “sweet spot” the OP is looking for.</p>
<p>Among universities, only Penn State has top-10 departments (per 2010 NRC rankings) in both fields, but schools like UCLA, UC Berkeley, Arizona, Oregon, and UC Santa Barbara would be quite strong (top 25, roughly) in both. </p>
<p>Little-known fact: with the emergence of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geographers with GIS mapping skills are in demand these days both in the private sector, in government, and in the non-profit sector (e.g., colleges, universities, various kinds of research institutions). Geography hasn’t totally been transformed into a “techie” discipline, but for those with the aptitude and desire to get teched-up, there are some opportunities out there. And it’s entirely possible to learn both the technical side and the theoretical/“soft” side of geography, and perhaps combine that with anthropology or some other academic discipline.</p>
<p>^ Sounds like good advice. I bet a resourceful kid with GIS skills could do some very cool research (with interesting travel opportunities) in anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, ethnobotany, zoology, etc., then parlay the results into a good career opening.</p>
<p>My S is anthro major and my D is planning a Geography/GIS major (not at the caliber of schools listed here), but I do remember seeing a couple schools (probably in the SE) where Anthro and Geog were in the same department. Stuck in my mind because I thought it was odd. LSU maybe?</p>
<p>Columbia has a wonderful GIS class!</p>
<p>I have been having a hard time finding schools that are specifically strong in biological/medical anthropology. I feel that many schools focus more on cultural/social. Does anyone know what schools have strong biological anthro departments?</p>
<p>^ For biological anthropology: Harvard (Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology), Duke, possibly Michigan, Emory, Tulane.</p>
<p>For medical anthropology: check this directory for schools with faculty in that area:
[SMA</a> - Medical Anthropology Global Directory](<a href=“http://www.medanthro.net/directory/index.htm]SMA”>http://www.medanthro.net/directory/index.htm)</p>
<p>Also, see my post in this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/other-college-majors/901650-medical-anthropology-undergrads.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/other-college-majors/901650-medical-anthropology-undergrads.html</a></p>
<p>George Washington University offers a bachelors degree in biological anthropology.</p>
<p>[Anthropology</a> | Full List of Academic Offerings | Explore Undergraduate Programs | Undergraduate | Learn | The George Washington University](<a href=“http://www.gwu.edu/learn/undergraduate/exploreundergraduateprograms/fulllistofacademicofferings/anthropology]Anthropology”>http://www.gwu.edu/learn/undergraduate/exploreundergraduateprograms/fulllistofacademicofferings/anthropology)</p>