Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best Anthropology Master's Degree Schools in Illinois 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 schools for anthropology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Because of lacking data, we couldn't provide you with the anthropology quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer anthropology and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

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

Best Anthropology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Anthropology Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	211	18
Ohio	207	21
Indiana	191	34
Wisconsin	173	13

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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	27

Majors Similar to Anthropology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Social Sciences	706
Economics	315
Political Science & Government	113
International Relations & National Security	97
Sociology	66
Geography & Cartography	39
Other Social Sciences	9
Urban Studies	2

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.