<p>I Am Looking Into An Anthropology Degree I am Leaning towards Cultural But Am Not 100% Positive</p>
<p>I live in the USA and want to possibly got to college out of country </p>
<p>What is a list of best colleges in the World</p>
<p>If you are looking to get a PhD in anthropology eventually, you cannot beat Beloit college. It has the largest anthropological museum out of every LAC, 2nd producer of future PhDs in anthropology in the entire country and has very personalized education.</p>
<p>Also check into Michigan, Arizona, Chicago, NYU, Skidmore, Texas, SMU, Dartmouth, Macalester and Colorado College.</p>
<p>Abroad: Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL are all excellent. Australian National is solid, but probably leans more on the biological side of things.</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Anthropology](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area35.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area35.html)</p>
<h1>UC - San Francisco (Medical Anthropology) *** Graduate school ***</h1>
<h1>Penn State U. (Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>Harvard U. (Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>U. Chicago (Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>Arizona State U. (Physical Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>UC - Los Angeles (Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>Rutgers - New Brunswick (Evolutionary Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>Stanford U. (Anthropological Sciences)</h1>
<h1>Rutgers - New Brunswick (Cultural Anthropology)</h1>
<h1>U. Michigan - Ann Arbor (Anthropology)</h1>
<p>from FSP analytics… .basically the same as NRC rankings but not as comprehensive… focuses on scholarly productivity, but they overlap a lot among the top 10.</p>
<p>I’d say… (not in specific order)</p>
<p>U.S.A.: Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Michigan, Berkeley
Abroad: Oxford, Cambridge (don’t know about non-British schools…)</p>
<p>The NRC rankings consider graduate programs. Another standard to consider is the Baccalaureate origin of Ph.D.s in anthropology. Which colleges and universities send the highest percentage of their graduates on to earn Ph.D.s in anthropology? This may indicate how well their programs motivate and prepare students to earn the highest degree in this field. The top ten per capita are:</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr<br>
Beloit
Great Lakes Christian
Grinnell
Univ. of Chicago
Reed
Goddard
Pomona
Sarah Lawrence
College of the Atlantic</p>
<p>(source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium; based on Ph.D.s granted from 1992-2001).</p>
<p>The only school that shows up on all 3 of these lists is the University of Chicago (the only research university on this last list.) LACs tend to out-perform universities in per capita Ph.D. productivity according to the HEDS studies. But they generally do not have graduate programs (with a few exceptions such as teaching degree programs), so they won’t show up on the NRC or FSP lists. </p>
<p>If you are drawn to LACs and you are female, Bryn Mawr has a special advantage because it is part of a consortium that allows you to take courses at 3 other fine schools (Haverford, Swarthmore, UPenn). If you are male or female and enroll at nearby Haverford, you could take your anthro courses at Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>Another thing to consider: the study of anthropology is informed by other disciplines, such as biology, sociology and linguistics. So don’t ignore a school’s overall strengths or particular strengths in related fields.</p>
<p>Duke</p>
<p>You can work with the Lemurs.</p>
<p>Rugg’s Recommendations Anthropology</p>
<p>Albany (SUNY) (NY) ………
Barnard (NY) …………
Brnndels (MA) ….
Bryn Mawr ¶ ……
Buffalo (SUNY) (NY) ……
California, U. of (Berkeley) ………
California, U. of (Los Angeles) …
Case Western Reserve (OH) ……
Chlcago, U of (IL) ….
Colorado College……
Columbia (NY) .”
Dartmouth (NH) ……
Duke (NC) ……
Florlda, U. of ….
Grinnell (IA) …….
Harvard (MA) ……,
Illinois, U. of Urbana.Champaign) …
Lafayette ¶ ………
Macalester (MN) ……
Michigan, U. of ……
New College (FL) ….
Northwestern (IL) ….
Pennsylvania, U. of ……
Pitzer (CA) .
Pomona (CA) …,
Rice (TX) …….
Skidmore (NY) .
Smith (MA) …
South, U. of the (TN) ……’
Stanford (CA) …….
Vanderbilt (TN) …
Washington U. (MO) ……
Yale (CT) …., </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 is a 15-year-old fraud.</p>
<p>mini-
notice that all of the top 10 NRC Anthro programs are in the Gourman list except for the medical anthro at San Francisco. That is pretty good validation. What do you have against Gourman? Did you know him personally?</p>
<p>Gourman has been issuing fraudulent reports for 15 years?
Or Gourman is actually a 15 year old kid working out of his parents’ basement?</p>
<p>What is Gourman on International Relations mini? :-p</p>
<p>NRC is 14 years old, not much younger.</p>
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<p>I don’t know about “the world”, but the Times ranking of Anthropology programs in the UK can be seen [here](<a href=“The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today's latest headlines”>The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today's latest headlines).</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Oxford, LSE and Cambridge offer the top 3 Anthropology programs in Britain. Scotland’s St. Andrews comes 4th though and is known for being very friendly to U.S applicants (meaning it admits lots of American students, unlike LSE or Oxbridge).</p>
<p>Despite Oxbridge’s greater reputation/prestige and what the league tables say, I personally think LSE is the best UK school for social sciences in general (social anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, etc.).</p>
<p>You should also consider Columbia, Brown and Penn within the US.</p>
<p>I was thinking about Boston University for Anthropology…anyone know if the program is any good?</p>
<p>I’ve heard through the grapevine that Beloit and Bryn Mawr have particularly good anthro programs.</p>
<p>Michigan, Chicago, Harvard and Penn (in that order) are probably the top 4 Anthropology departments in the US.</p>