Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Far Western US Region that made our Best Anthropology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Anthropology School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of anthropology for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on anthropology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other anthropology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for anthropology to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized anthropology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for anthropology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Far Western US Region

Because of lacking data, we could not provide you with the anthropology quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Far Western US Region that both offer anthropology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Anthropology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Anthropology ranking.

Best Anthropology Colleges by State

Explore the best anthropology schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	253	121
Washington	183	4
Oregon	158	17
Nevada	105	10
Hawaii	85	8
Alaska	52	3

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Anthropology Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Social Sciences area of study, Anthropology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Anthropology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Anthropology	142

Most Popular Majors Related to Anthropology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	662
International Relations & National Security	471
Geography & Cartography	183
Sociology	178
Political Science & Government	160
Urban Studies	48
General Social Sciences	41
Demography & Population Studies	29
Other Social Sciences	20
Archeology	8

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Deror avi. More about our data sources and methodologies.