2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological Anthropology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Physical & Biological Anthropology is the 1109th most popular major in the country with 50 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 physical and biological anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical and biological anthropology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular physical and biological anthropology programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical & Biological Anthropology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#14 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s. GWU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 23 bachelors’s physical anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 Physical & Biological Anthropology at GWU

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Drew University
Madison, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drew University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Physical Anthropology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s. Madison, New Jersey is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physical anthropology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, 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 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Physical & Biological Anthropology at Drew

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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

• *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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