Sociology & Anthropology is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #201 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of sociology & anthropology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 109 bachelor's degrees in sociology & anthropology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sociology & anthropology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other sociology & anthropology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt sociology & anthropology students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sociology & anthropology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for sociology & anthropology students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Sociology & Anthropology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Sociology & Anthropology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Featured Sociology & Anthropology Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Learn to analyze social factors and become an advocate for individual and community health with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
It's hard to beat College of Staten Island CUNY if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in sociology & anthropology. Located in the city of Staten Island, CSI is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the sociology & anthropology program state that they receive average early career earnings of $29,091.
Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).