2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Alabama, there were 92 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,497 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in anthropology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent anthropology programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama master’s degree anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology (Income $30-$48k) in Alabama

#1

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$19,188 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k list. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s anthropology degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

UAB also took the #1 spot in our “Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Alabama at Birmingham are $19,188, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Anthropology at UAB

#2

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

$30,940 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #2 spot on the list. UA is a large public school situated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It awarded 3 masters’s anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

UA also took the #0 spot in our “Best Anthropology Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Alabama are $30,940, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Anthropology at UA

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology (Income $30-$48k)

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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