The 50 colleges that score highest for Anthropology on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | MA | Median earnings $111,436 (field-wide) · 18 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | University of Chicago | IL | Median earnings $149,058 (field-wide) · 31 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Median earnings $110,014 (field-wide) · 21 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | Columbia University in the City of New York | NY | Median earnings $83,493 · 31 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Yale University | CT | Median earnings $121,975 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Princeton University | NJ | Median earnings $140,381 (field-wide) · 39 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | Brown University | RI | Median earnings $106,726 (field-wide) · 23 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | Northwestern University | IL | Median earnings $108,495 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $100,856 (field-wide) · 40 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Vanderbilt University | TN | Median earnings $116,590 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | Duke University | NC | Median earnings $81,120 · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Median earnings $71,018 · 82 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | University of California-Los Angeles | CA | Median earnings $54,905 · 190 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | Emory University | GA | Median earnings $78,768 · 69 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | Bowdoin College | ME | Median earnings $105,110 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | Dartmouth College | NH | Median earnings $70,846 · 34 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $107,116 (field-wide) · 22 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Median earnings $64,359 · 79 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Barnard College | NY | Median earnings $92,312 (field-wide) · 32 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Colby College | ME | Median earnings $100,327 (field-wide) · 13 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $83,369 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | Wellesley College | MA | Median earnings $106,442 (field-wide) · 18 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | Middlebury College | VT | Median earnings $103,056 (field-wide) · 16 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | Tufts University | MA | Median earnings $96,370 (field-wide) · 15 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | Colgate University | NY | Median earnings $105,764 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $53,722 · 17 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | Georgetown University | DC | Median earnings $90,449 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Grinnell College | IA | Median earnings $91,631 (field-wide) · 18 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Median earnings $56,589 · 131 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | Median earnings $103,935 (field-wide) · 42 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | Wesleyan University | CT | Median earnings $73,897 (college-wide) · 15 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | Median earnings $56,847 · 28 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | University of California-San Diego | CA | Median earnings $56,982 · 83 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | Smith College | MA | Median earnings $72,757 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $53,042 · 56 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Wake Forest University | NC | Median earnings $86,763 (field-wide) · 10 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | University of California-Santa Barbara | CA | Median earnings $56,238 · 117 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | William & Mary | VA | Median earnings $88,141 (field-wide) · 31 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | University of California-Irvine | CA | Median earnings $50,850 · 55 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | Reed College | OR | Median earnings $92,453 (field-wide) · 15 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | VA | Median earnings $51,811 · 41 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | University of Rochester | NY | Median earnings $87,861 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $76,636 (field-wide) · 16 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Kenyon College | OH | Median earnings $103,791 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $47,348 · 103 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | San Diego State University | CA | Median earnings $53,991 · 48 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | Skidmore College | NY | Median earnings $69,091 (field-wide) · 20 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | University of California-Davis | CA | Median earnings $56,836 · 64 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $65,172 · 27 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | Binghamton University | NY | Median earnings $53,460 · 30 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees |
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