by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Physical Anthropology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 53 people earned their degree in physical & biological anthropology, making the major the 1109th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 physical & biological 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 Physical Anthropology Major” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in physical & biological anthropology. That schools that top this list have a program in physical & biological anthropology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercyhurst University landed the #1 spot on the list. Mercyhurst is a private not-for-profit institution located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Binghamton University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major. Binghamton University is a public institution located in Vestal, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Binghamton University Physical & Biological Anthropology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 7 masters’s physical anthropology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Physical & Biological Anthropology at New York University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Anthropology Major. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s physical anthropology degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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