2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Medical Anthropology
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Anthropology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 226 people earned their degree in medical anthropology, making the major the 893rd most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 medical anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Anthropology Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in medical anthropology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their medical anthropology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Anthropology Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree medical anthropology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Medical Anthropology
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Anthropology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the #1 spot on the list. Creighton University is a medium-sized school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 11 masters’s medical anthropology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Medical Anthropology at Creighton
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Francisco. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Anthropology Major list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s medical anthropology degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Medical Anthropology at UCSF
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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