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Anthropology arose at the junction of several classical sciences: biology, geology, paleontology, psychology, history, and others. One of the popular characteristics of this scientific discipline is "the most humanitarian of the natural, the most scientific of the humanities." Anthropology is the science of man and humanity in various aspects, about the connections of people and groups, the interaction of man with nature, the state, and other people.
The study of anthropology in America is often offered in combination with another direction (double degree): psychology, history, archeology. This is due to the need for data from other sciences to study the objects of anthropology. Anthropology students in the United States can choose from a variety of majors:
- Antrozoology
- Biological anthropology
- Demography
- Cultural anthropology
- International migration processes
- General anthropology
- Paleopathology
- Paleoecology
- Social anthropology
- Philosophical anthropology
- Ethnobiology
- Ethnography
- Ethnology.
With a degree in anthropology, a university graduate acquires a versatile education and a broad outlook. Graduates find application of their knowledge in various fields of activity:
- Scientific work
- Activities of state organizations
- Activities of international organizations
- Journalism
- Marketing
- Media and communications
- Field of art
- Field of social and community work
- Pedagogy.
Specialists are most in demand and have a high income in Western Europe and the USA. Education in anthropological specialties at US universities is conducted at a high level: scientific research in groups with prominent scientists, visits to the objects under study, practice in anthropological and related disciplines. To choose a university in the United States where you can get a degree in anthropology, you can use the latest selection - the rating "Best Universities with the Study of Anthropology in the USA-2021".
Best anthropology universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 3 | University of Chicago |
| 4 | Stanford University |
| 5 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 7 | Yale University |
| 8 | Columbia University |
| 9 | New York University (NYU) |
| 10 | Duke University |
| 11 | Princeton University |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13 | Arizona State University |
| 14 | The University of Arizona |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 16 | Brown University |
| 17 | Cornell University |
| 18 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 19 | City University of New York |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 21 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 22 | Michigan State University |
| 23 | Northwestern University |
| 24 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 25 | University of California, Davis |
| 26 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 27 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 28 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 29 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 30 | University of Washington |
| 31 | Boston University |
| 32 | Dartmouth College |
| 33 | Emory University |
| 34 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 35 | The New School |
| 36 | The University of Georgia |
| 37 | University of California, Irvine |
| 38 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 39 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 40 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 42 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 43 | University of Notre Dame |
| 44 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 45 | University of Southern California |
| 46 | Washington University in St. Louis |
