2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Anthropology in the Middle Atlantic 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 80 people earned their degree in cultural anthropology, making the major the 1021st most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 21 cultural anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 cultural anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in cultural anthropology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cultural anthropology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The cultural anthropology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree cultural anthropology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Anthropology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Arcadia University
Glenside, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arcadia University landed the #1 spot on the list. Arcadia is a small school located in Glenside, Pennsylvania that handed out 3 bachelors’s cultural anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Cultural Anthropology at Arcadia

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The New School
New York, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The New School. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cultural Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. The New School is located in New York, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s cultural anthropology degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Cultural Anthropology at The New School

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cultural 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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