<p>hey guys, what LAC's do you think are the best for studying Anthropology? Please dont base this on "rankings", but things like study abroad opportunities, class sizes, overall academic experience, professors, ect....
I plan to major in Anthro but I would also like to minor/concentration in Environmental Science/Studies. Which schools also have good environmental studies programs?</p>
<p>any help is welcome!!!!</p>
<p>Although it's not a Lac, since you're from ohio. Check out Bowling Green's environmental studies program.</p>
<p>lol, about a quarter of my schools graduating class ends up at BGSU...definitely looking for something more...selective. Thanks for the suggestion though.</p>
<p>drew's the resident bowling green cheerleader</p>
<p>Colby and Bowdoin are both great for environmental studies.</p>
<p>rhunter:</p>
<p>I don't really agree with picking an LAC on the basis of a single department. Not saying that you shouldn't consider departments of interest, but start with the "A-level" attributes of the schools to find a good fit in terms of campus culture. Then, narrow that list.</p>
<p>Having said that, I'll post the top schools in production of future Anthropology PhDs per graduate in the next post. There are some clearly strong Anthro schools (specifically Bryn Mawr and Beloit). Then, I'll post the same thing for PhDs in two somewhat related fields: Sociology and Anthropology. Many of the schools that are strong in these areas (for example, Swarthmore) have a combined Sociology/Anthropology department.</p>
<p>Number of PhDs per 1000 graduates </p>
<p>Academic field: Anthropology </p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database<br>
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database<br>
Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads, multiplied by 1000 </p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period<br>
Note: Includes all NSF doctoral degrees inc. PhD, Divinity, etc., but not M.D. or Law. </p>
<p>1 Bryn Mawr College 16
2 Beloit College 10
3 Grinnell College 7
4 Reed College 7
5 University of Chicago 6
6 Pomona College 5
7 Bennington College 5
8 Harvard University 4
9 Vassar College 4
10 Sarah Lawrence College 4
11 Yale University 4
12 Wesleyan University 4
13 Hampshire College 4
14 Haverford College 4
15 Oberlin College 3
16 Carleton College 3
17 Barnard College 3
18 Bowdoin College 3
19 Wellesley College 3
20 Swarthmore College 3
21 Rice University 3
22 Stanford University 3
23 Kenyon College 3
24 Bard College 3
25 Princeton University 3
26 Brown University 3
27 Amherst College 3
28 Williams College 3
29 Dartmouth College 3
30 Smith College 3
31 Kalamazoo College 2
32 Brandeis University 2
33 Goucher College 2
34 Bates College 2
35 University of California-Berkeley 2
36 College of William and Mary 2
37 Hamline University 2
38 Hamilton College 2
39 Drew University 2
40 Washington and Lee University 2
41 University of Pennsylvania 2
42 Washington University 2
43 Case Western Reserve University 2
44 Macalester College 2
45 Lake Erie College 2
46 Colgate University 2
47 Agnes Scott College 2
48 Columbia University in the City of New York 2
49 Earlham College 2
50 Northwestern Univ 2
51 Duke University 2
52 Maryville College 2</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period<br>
Note: Includes all NSF doctoral degrees inc. PhD, Divinity, etc., but not M.D. or Law. </p>
<p>1 Bryn Mawr College 21
2 Beloit College 13
3 Swarthmore College 10
4 Grinnell College 10
5 Haverford College 10
6 Reed College 9
7 University of Chicago 9
8 Pomona College 8
9 Bennington College 8
10 Oberlin College 8
11 Hampshire College 7
12 Harvard University 7
13 Wesleyan University 7
14 Carleton College 7
15 Yale University 6
16 Brown University 6
17 Wellesley College 5
18 Vassar College 5
19 Barnard College 5
20 Whitman College 5
21 Bard College 5
22 Rice University 5
23 Bowdoin College 5
24 Goucher College 5
25 Stanford University 5
26 Earlham College 5
27 Brandeis University 5
28 Sarah Lawrence College 5
29 Smith College 5
30 Princeton University 4
31 Macalester College 4
32 Franklin and Marshall College 4
33 Kenyon College 4
34 Hamline University 4
35 Kalamazoo College 4
36 Amherst College 4
37 University of California-Berkeley 4
38 Bates College 4
39 University of California-Santa Cruz 4
40 Clark University 4</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>Gourman Report Undergrad environmental sciences
environmental sciences
Harvard
MIT
Cornell
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Penn
UVA
SUNY Coll Env Sci Forestry
JHU
Purdue
U Minnesota</p>
<p>conn college has a neat environmental studies certificate program: <a href="http://ccbes.conncoll.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://ccbes.conncoll.edu/</a></p>
<p>Middlebury College had the first Enviro Studies program in the country, and it is still going strong...</p>
<p>Macalester's anthropology department is excellent. Jack Weatherford is the school's most well known prof (check out 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World'). He's an amazing prof (despite being famous he can teach) and advises a lot of students. All anthro majors are actually required to study abroad, so you'll have great opportunities for that.
The Environmental Studies department is also great, and you can design an ES major to overlap with Anthro, so it'd be pretty easy to do a double major.</p>