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TOP-100 best universities in Anthropology 2026 Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in Anthropology 2026 Rankings

Top 100 best anthropology universities in the world 2026 QS

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

#	University	Ranking
1	University of Oxford	98.6
2	Harvard University	97.9
3	University of Cambridge	97.7
=4	UCL	94.5
=4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	94.5
6	University of Chicago	93.8
7	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	92.7
8	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	89.2
9	Australian National University (ANU)	89.1
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	89
11	Stanford University	88.3
12	Yale University	88.2
13	Columbia University	87.5
14	National University of Singapore (NUS)	87.1
15	University of Amsterdam	87
16	University of Toronto	86.5
=17	The University of Edinburgh	86.1
=17	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	86.1
19	SOAS University of London	86
20	The University of Manchester	84.5
21	New York University (NYU)	83.7
22	Leiden University	83.5
23	Princeton University	83.4
24	Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales	82.1
=25	Durham University	82
=25	Universidade de São Paulo	82
27	Arizona State University	81.3
28	Duke University	81.2
29	University of British Columbia	80.9
30	Cornell University	80
31	McGill University	79.9
32	University of Pennsylvania	79.7
33	The University of Melbourne	79.6
34	University of Vienna	79.4
35	University of Copenhagen	79
36	The University of Sydney	78.1
37	The University of Tokyo	78
=38	Kyoto University	77.8
=38	University of Oslo	77.8
=40	Aarhus University	77.5
=40	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	77.5
42	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	76.2
43	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	76
44	University of Texas at Austin	75.6
45	Freie Universitaet Berlin	75
46	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	74.9
47	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	74.3
48	University of St Andrews	73.9
49	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	73.8
50	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	73.4
51-100	Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna	n/a
51-100	Boston University	n/a
51-100	Brown University	n/a
51-100	Complutense University of Madrid	n/a
51-100	Gadjah Mada University	n/a
51-100	Indiana University Bloomington	n/a
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	n/a
51-100	KU Leuven	n/a
51-100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	n/a
51-100	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	n/a
51-100	Monash University	n/a
51-100	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	n/a
51-100	Northwestern University	n/a
51-100	Peking University	n/a
51-100	Pennsylvania State University	n/a
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	n/a
51-100	Sapienza University of Rome	n/a
51-100	Seoul National University	n/a
51-100	Stockholm University	n/a
51-100	The University of Arizona	n/a
51-100	The University of Auckland	n/a
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	n/a
51-100	The University of Queensland	n/a
51-100	The University of Sheffield	n/a
51-100	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	n/a
51-100	Universidad de Chile	n/a
51-100	Universidad de los Andes - Colombia	n/a
51-100	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul	n/a
51-100	Universitas Indonesia	n/a
51-100	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	n/a
51-100	Universitat de Barcelona	n/a
51-100	University of Aberdeen	n/a
51-100	University of Bergen	n/a
51-100	University of Bristol	n/a
51-100	University of California, Davis	n/a
51-100	University of California, Irvine	n/a
51-100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	n/a
51-100	University of California, Santa Cruz	n/a
51-100	University of Cape Town	n/a
51-100	University of Cologne	n/a
51-100	University of Exeter	n/a
51-100	University of Helsinki	n/a
51-100	University of Sussex	n/a
51-100	University of Washington	n/a
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	n/a
51-100	University of Witwatersrand	n/a
51-100	University of Zurich	n/a
51-100	Université Paris-Nanterre	n/a
51-100	Utrecht University	n/a
51-100	Vanderbilt University	n/a