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2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
149 Degrees Awarded
$10,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor's in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Anthropology is the 77th most popular major in the country with 12,008 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, anthropology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,661 and had an average of $23,289 in loans still to pay off.

Across Utah, there were 185 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,400 and $19,553 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 149 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in anthropology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great anthropology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the anthropology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology (Income $0-$30k) in Utah

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at BYU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Utah” ranking. It costs about $8,834 for Utah Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend BYU.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full BYU Anthropology Report

#2

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #2 spot on the list. U of U is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 71 bachelors’s anthropology degrees to qualified students.

U of U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. The yearly cost to attend U of U is $11,511 for utah bachelor’s degree anthropology students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full U of U Anthropology Report

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Weber State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Weber State University is a large school located in Ogden, Utah that handed out 17 bachelors’s anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

WSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. The estimated yearly cost for Weber State University is $9,790 for utah bachelor’s degree anthropology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full WSU Anthropology Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school awarded 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2019-2020.

USU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. The estimated yearly cost for USU is $10,643 for Utah Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Anthropology at Utah State University

#5

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, Utah
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Utah University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Utah For Those Making $0-$30k. Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City, Utah and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s anthropology degrees to qualified students.

Southern Utah University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. It costs about $11,779 for utah bachelor’s degree anthropology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Southern Utah University.

Full Southern Utah University Anthropology Report

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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