We offer an overview of TOP-100 best anthropological universities in the world for foreign students. Anthropology is the scientific study of man, human behavior, and society in the past and present. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, and cultural anthropology studies cultural significance, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropology studies the influence of language on social life.
Anthropologists study human language, culture, societies, biological, material remains, biology, primate behavior, even buying habits.
Most working anthropologists have at least a master's degree: it usually takes two years to earn a master's degree after four years of study for a bachelor's degree. Master's programs in Anthropology focus on language, culture, traditions, and the preservation of artifacts for future generations, such as in museums. Programs such as the Master of Cultural Studies or the Master of Social Anthropology explore the nature of human communication and the linguistic and cultural changes taking place in time and space.
A significant proportion of anthropology graduates work in the public, non-profit sectors, in the civil service, in charitable organizations, universities, international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), in museums.
Top 100 best anthropology universities in the world 2026 QS
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | University of Oxford | 97,8 |
| 2 | Harvard University | 97,4 |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | 97,2 |
| 4 | UCL | 93,7 |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 93,0 |
| 6 | University of Chicago | 92,3 |
| =7 | Stanford University | 92,1 |
| =7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 92,1 |
| 9 | The Australian National University | 91,8 |
| 10 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | 89,3 |
| 11 | The London School of Economics | 89,2 |
| 12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 88,5 |
| 13 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 87,4 |
| 14 | University of British Columbia | 87,3 |
| 15 | The University of Edinburgh | 87,2 |
| 16 | University of Toronto | 86,5 |
| 17 | Yale University | 86,1 |
| 18 | Leiden University | 85,8 |
| 19 | SOAS University of London | 84,7 |
| 20 | The University of Melbourne | 84,6 |
| 21 | Columbia University | 84,3 |
| 22 | University of Amsterdam | 84,2 |
| 23 | Universidade de São Paulo | 83,8 |
| 24 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | 82,8 |
| 25 | McGill University | 82,6 |
| 26 | New York University (NYU) | 82,3 |
| 27 | The University of Sydney | 81,9 |
| 28 | Durham University | 81,8 |
| 29 | The University of Manchester | 81,6 |
| 30 | Duke University | 81,5 |
| 31 | University of Copenhagen | 81,3 |
| 32 | Princeton University | 81,0 |
| 33 | The University of Tokyo | 80,9 |
| 34 | University of Pennsylvania | 80,6 |
| 35 | Aarhus University | 80,2 |
| 36 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 80,0 |
| 37 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) | 79,9 |
| 38 | Arizona State University | 79,8 |
| 39 | The University of Arizona | 79,7 |
| 40 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 79,6 |
| 41 | The University of Hong Kong | 79,5 |
| 42 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | 78,8 |
| =43 | Kyoto University | 78,5 |
| =43 | University of Vienna | 78,5 |
| =45 | Brown University | 77,8 |
| =45 | Humboldt-University Berlin | 77,8 |
| =45 | University Paris 1 Pantha on-Sorbonne | 77,8 |
| =48 | Cornell University | 77,6 |
| =48 | The University of Auckland | 77,6 |
| =48 | Universidad de Los Andes | 77,6 |
| =48 | University of Texas at Austin | 77,6 |
| 51-100 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | |
| 51-100 | City University of New York | |
| 51-100 | Complutense University of Madrid | |
| 51-100 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | |
| 51-100 | Freie Universität Berlin | |
| 51-100 | Gadjah Mada University | |
| 51-100 | Goldsmiths, University of London | |
| 51-100 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| 51-100 | La Trobe University | |
| 51-100 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | |
| 51-100 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | |
| 51-100 | Michigan State University | |
| 51-100 | Monash University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | |
| 51-100 | Northwestern University | |
| 51-100 | Peking University | |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 51-100 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | |
| 51-100 | Radboud University | |
| 51-100 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | Simon Fraser University | |
| 51-100 | Stockholm University | |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | |
| 51-100 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul | |
| 51-100 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Université PSL | |
| 51-100 | University of Aberdeen | |
| 51-100 | University of Bergen | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Davis | |
| 51-100 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | |
| 51-100 | University of Cape Town | |
| 51-100 | University of Delhi | |
| 51-100 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | |
| 51-100 | University of Helsinki | |
| 51-100 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | |
| 51-100 | University of St Andrews | |
| 51-100 | University of Washington | |
