2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Anthropology

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Cultural Anthropology Schools for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 76 people earned their degree in cultural anthropology, making the major the 1042nd most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 cultural anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great cultural anthropology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the cultural anthropology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Cultural Anthropology Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Cultural Anthropology Schools for a Master’s.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Anthropology

#1

The New School

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$47,642 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Cultural Anthropology Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The New School landed the #1 spot on the list. The New School is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 13 masters’s cultural anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

New School University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Cultural Anthropology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The New School are $47,642, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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