2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 50 people earned their degree in physical and biological anthropology, making the major the 1109th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 40 physical and biological anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 physical and biological anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical and biological anthropology. That schools that top this list have a program in physical and biological anthropology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological Anthropology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Mercyhurst University
Erie, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mercyhurst University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Mercyhurst is a small school located in Erie, Pennsylvania that handed out 3 masters’s physical anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mercyhurst Physical & Biological Anthropology Report

2

Binghamton University
Vestal, New York

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Binghamton University landed the #2 spot on the list. Binghamton University is located in Vestal, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s physical anthropology degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Binghamton University Physical & Biological Anthropology Report

3

New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 0 masters’s physical anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Physical & Biological Anthropology at NYU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological 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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