Most Popular Schools for Anthropology Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology and prehistoric archeology, hominid evolution, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory, socio-cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, research methods, and applications to areas such as medicine, forensic pathology, museum studies, and international affairs.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of California-Los Angeles	243	2%	$34,620
2	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	233	2%	$27,638
3	University of Florida	171	1%	$21,211
4	University of California-Riverside	131	2%	$35,242
5	University of California-Santa Cruz	130	3%	$36,217
6	University of California-Irvine	109	1%	$34,261
7	University of Central Florida	109	1%	$22,548
8	University of California-Santa Barbara	108	2%	$36,659
9	University of California-Berkeley	108	1%	$38,066
10	California State University-Long Beach	97	1%	$24,738
11	University of Colorado Boulder	90	1%	$31,044
12	Arizona State University-Tempe	90	1%	$28,048
13	Texas State University	87	1%	$23,130
14	San Diego State University	81	1%	$29,318
15	University of South Florida-Main Campus	81	1%	$23,320
16	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	78	1%	$33,503
17	Oregon State University	76	1%	$26,892
18	University of California-Davis	75	1%	$35,177
19	Western Washington University	75	2%	$24,077
20	The University of Montana	73	3%	$20,966
21	Columbia University in the City of New York	70	1%	$76,856
22	Texas A & M University-College Station	67	0%	$29,506
23	University of Arizona	65	1%	$29,217
24	University of Oregon	64	1%	$27,366
25	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	63	1%	$22,639
26	University of Virginia-Main Campus	60	1%	$33,493
27	The University of Texas at Austin	59	0%	$26,506
28	Emory University	59	2%	$69,502
29	San Francisco State University	58	1%	$27,480
30	California State University-Chico	58	1%	$24,624
31	Georgia State University	58	1%	$26,014
32	Ohio State University-Main Campus	57	0%	$27,367
33	CUNY Hunter College	57	1%	$22,379
34	University of North Texas	55	1%	$24,712
35	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	54	1%	$26,231
36	University of Utah	51	1%	$24,472
37	California State University-Northridge	51	0%	$22,969
38	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	50	1%	$23,811
39	California State University-Sacramento	50	1%	$26,454
40	Binghamton University	49	1%	$26,866
41	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	48	1%	$31,510
42	Northern Arizona University	47	1%	$27,266
43	University of Arkansas	46	1%	$25,500
44	Washington University in St Louis	46	1%	$74,361
45	Central Washington University	45	2%	$23,201
46	East Carolina University	45	1%	$21,672
47	Portland State University	45	1%	$26,085
48	University of Houston	45	0%	$23,225
49	California State University-Los Angeles	44	1%	$26,139
50	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	44	1%	$30,913
51	Humboldt State University	43	2%	$24,811
52	Appalachian State University	42	1%	$19,194
53	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	42	1%	$24,486
54	The University of Texas at San Antonio	42	1%	$23,715
55	Florida Atlantic University	41	1%	$24,235
56	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	41	1%	$29,097
57	Florida State University	40	0%	$22,168
58	Indiana University-Bloomington	40	0%	$24,779
59	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	40	1%	$30,360
60	Michigan State University	40	0%	$28,862
61	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	40	0%	$36,652
62	The University of Alabama	40	0%	$29,872
63	CUNY Lehman College	40	1%	$27,857
64	University of California-San Diego	40	0%	$32,838
65	The University of West Florida	40	1%	$19,014
66	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	39	0%	$32,443
67	Wayne State University	39	1%	$27,157
68	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	39	0%	$30,298
69	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	38	0%	$27,898
70	University of Georgia	38	0%	$26,688
71	California State University-Fullerton	37	0%	$27,738
72	University of Iowa	37	1%	$24,239
73	Tulane University of Louisiana	37	1%	$72,296
74	University of Louisville	37	1%	$27,980
75	Temple University	37	0%	$33,004
76	Monmouth University	37	2%	$56,979
77	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	36	1%	$24,035
78	San Jose State University	36	0%	$29,193
79	Harvard University	36	1%	$71,650
80	American University	36	1%	$66,268
81	University of Wisconsin-Madison	35	0%	$26,025
82	University of Vermont	35	1%	$34,210
83	George Mason University	35	0%	$30,284
84	University of Hawaii at Manoa	35	1%	$29,858
85	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	35	1%	$28,891
86	Grand Valley State University	34	1%	$24,948
87	New York University	34	0%	$73,566
88	Washington State University	34	0%	$27,484
89	University of Kansas	34	1%	$26,566
90	University of Maryland-College Park	33	0%	$27,146
91	University of Nevada-Reno	33	1%	$25,039
92	Kennesaw State University	32	1%	$25,773
93	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	32	0%	$23,977
94	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	31	0%	$30,102
95	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	31	0%	$27,476
96	University of Memphis	31	1%	$25,423
97	Texas Tech University	31	0%	$24,472
98	Baylor University	30	1%	$62,527
99	California State University-San Marcos	29	1%	$25,325
100	George Washington University	29	0%	$71,930

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Anthropology program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.