2025 Best Sociology & Anthropology Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
51Sociology & Anthropology Degrees Awarded
$29,310Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in sociology & anthropology, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #271 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for sociology & anthropology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 51 degrees in sociology & anthropology to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Sociology & Anthropology Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Sociology & Anthropology in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the sociology & anthropology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New England Region Schools in Sociology & Anthropology
Every student pursuing a degree in sociology & anthropology has to take a look at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. UMass Dartmouth is a moderately-sized public university located in the midsize suburb of North Dartmouth.
Those sociology & anthropology students who get their degree from University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth earn $5,078 more than the standard sociology & anthropology grad.
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).