2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Anthropology in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Anthropology is the 75th most popular major in the country with 10,974 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,164 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in anthropology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in anthropology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree anthropology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Anthropology in the Great Lakes Region

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Alpena Community College
Alpena, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Alpena Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Alpena, Michigan, and it awarded 1 associates’s anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Anthropology at Alpena Community College

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Lansing Community College
Lansing, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lansing Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Lansing, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s anthropology students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Anthropology at Lansing Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Anthropology

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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