Graduate Programs is pleased to announce its Fall 2015 Rankings of the Top Anthropology Graduate Programs according to students, enumerating the best graduate programs in the country in a variety of fields based solely on ratings and reviews from current

Graduate Programs is pleased to announce its Fall 2015 Rankings of the Top Anthropology Graduate Programs according to students, enumerating the best graduate programs in the country in a variety of fields based solely on ratings and reviews from current or recent graduate students posted on graduateprograms.com.

Program rankings, compiled using data gathered between September 1, 2012 and September 30, 2015, encompass reviews posted by more than 75,000 students participating in over 1,600 graduate programs nationwide. Ratings are based on a 10 star system (with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best).

The Top 25 Anthropology Programs are listed below:

1 Cornell University

2 Rice University

3 University of Wisconsin-Madison

4 University of California Davis

5 Arizona State University

6 California State University Los Angeles

7 Southern Methodist University

8 University of Minnesota

9 Texas State University

10 Tulane University

11 Duke University

12 Michigan State University

13 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

14 University of Arizona

15 Penn State University Park

16 Harvard University

17 New York University

18 The University of Montana

19 The University of Chicago

20 Columbia University

21 Brandeis University

22 Northwestern University

23 University of Georgia

24 University of California-Los Angeles

26 University of California-Berkeley

METHODOLOGY

Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms.

Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid and quality of network.

For a given graduate program, rankings are determined by calculating the average score for each program based on the 15 ranking categories. These scores are then compared across all ranked schools for that program and are translated into a final ranking for that graduate program, i.e., “business and management”. A given graduate program is not ranked until a minimum threshold of graduate student surveys is completed for that program