Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Colleges in California

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

Choosing a Great Anthropology School for Your Master's Degree

The anthropology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality anthropology program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to anthropology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of anthropology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt anthropology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 schools for anthropology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

As a result of missing data, we were not able to show you the anthropology quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer anthropology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

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

Best Anthropology Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Anthropology Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

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

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Rankings in Majors Related to Anthropology

Anthropology is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Anthropology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Anthropology	98

Most Popular Majors Related to Anthropology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	574
International Relations & National Security	438
Geography & Cartography	162
Sociology	152
Political Science & Government	117
Urban Studies	45
General Social Sciences	41
Demography & Population Studies	29
Other Social Sciences	20
Archeology	6

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.