2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological Anthropology

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physical Anthropology Schools for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical & Biological Anthropology is the 1115th most popular major in the country with 44 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 physical and biological anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical and biological anthropology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physical and biological anthropology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Physical Anthropology Schools for a Master’s

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological Anthropology

#1

Binghamton University

Vestal, New York

#1 in overall quality

$25,290 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Binghamton University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Anthropology Schools for a Master’s list. Located in Vestal, New York, this fairly large public school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s physical anthropology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Binghamton University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Physical & Biological Anthropology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Binghamton University are $25,290, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Physical & Biological Anthropology at Binghamton University

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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