Anthropology is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #75 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of anthropology. Combined, these schools handed out 52 degrees in anthropology to qualified students.
Your choice of anthropology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Anthropology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Anthropology Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the anthropology degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in anthropology has to check out Bowdoin College. Bowdoin is a small private not-for-profit college located in the fringe town of Brunswick. A Best Colleges rank of #81 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Bowdoin is a great college overall.
There were about 11 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at Bowdoin in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Bates College if you want to pursue a degree in anthropology. Bates is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Lewiston. This college ranks 3rd out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were roughly 5 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at Bates in the most recent year we have data available.
Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
It's difficult to beat University of Maine if you wish to pursue a degree in anthropology. Located in the small suburb of Orono, UMaine is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 19th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were about 17 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at UMaine in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of anthropology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Anthropology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
