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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology in Arkansas (With Aid)

5 Ranked Colleges
77 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor's in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Arkansas, there were 85 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,900 and $25,266 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in anthropology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality anthropology programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology in Arkansas (With Aid)

#1

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid list. University of Arkansas is a large public school situated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It awarded 52 bachelors’s anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

UARK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. It costs about $16,381 for arkansas bachelor’s degree anthropology students with aid per year to attend University of Arkansas.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid. Little Rock, Arkansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s anthropology degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

UA Little Rock did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $14,906 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students with aid per year to attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Full University of Arkansas at Little Rock Anthropology Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Central Arkansas is located in Conway, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s anthropology degrees to qualified students.

UCA also made our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend University of Central Arkansas is $15,376 for arkansas bachelor’s degree anthropology students with aid.

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#4

Hendrix College

Conway, Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hendrix College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid. Located in Conway, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2019-2020.

Hendrix did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,295 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students with aid per year to attend Hendrix College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#5

Lyon College

Batesville, Arkansas
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Lyon College landed the #5 spot on the list. Lyon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Batesville, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Lyon also made our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $15,447 for arkansas bachelor’s degree anthropology students with aid per year to attend Lyon College.

Read full report on Anthropology at Lyon College

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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