Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Anthropology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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 Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Due to absent data, we were not able to provide you with the anthropology quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer anthropology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at 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 Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	12
Minnesota	174	5
Iowa	154	2
Kansas	149	3
Nebraska	123	9
North Dakota	115	1

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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	29
Medical Anthropology	1

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	201
Geography & Cartography	120
International Relations & National Security	88
Sociology	53
Political Science & Government	41
General Social Sciences	40
Other Social Sciences	32
Urban Studies	7
Archeology	1
Sociology & Anthropology	1

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.