2025 Best Anthropology Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
86Anthropology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in anthropology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #75 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Anthropology Schools in District of Columbia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 86 degrees in anthropology to qualified students.
Your choice of anthropology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for anthropology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Anthropology Schools in District of Columbia list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Anthropology in District of Columbia
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the anthropology degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat George Washington University if you want to pursue a degree in anthropology. GWU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 2nd out of 7 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were about 42 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a degree in anthropology. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were about 13 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Every student who is interested in anthropology needs to take a look at American University. The American University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington. This university ranks 3rd out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were about 27 anthropology students who graduated with this degree at The American University in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of anthropology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for anthropology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
