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2022 Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
93 Degrees Awarded
$28,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor's

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Medical Anthropology is the 975th most popular major in the country with 116 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 93 medical anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in medical anthropology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great medical anthropology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the medical 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 Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Medical Anthropology

#1

SUNY Geneseo

Geneseo, New York
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Geneseo. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Geneseo, New York, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s medical anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Geneseo also took the #5 spot in our “Best Medical Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $18,924 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Anthropology students per year to attend SUNY Geneseo.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 full report on Medical Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Ohio State University - Main Campus is a large school located in Columbus, Ohio that handed out 3 bachelors’s medical anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Medical Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $17,616 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Anthropology students per year to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Ohio State University - Main Campus Medical Anthropology Report

#3

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s medical anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

Creighton also made our “Best Medical Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Creighton is $31,400 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Anthropology students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Medical Anthropology at Creighton University

#4

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Miami. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s medical anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree medical anthropology students list, U Miami has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Medical Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $46,949 for bachelor’s degree medical anthropology students per year to attend University of Miami.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Medical Anthropology at University of Miami

#5

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Medical Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s. WUSTL is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 75 bachelors’s medical anthropology degrees to qualified students.

WUSTL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Medical Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for WUSTL is $26,869 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Anthropology students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Washington University in St Louis Medical Anthropology Report

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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