The following ranking of graduate programs in anthropology is done by the National Research Council. It is based on the scholarly quality of the faculty and the effectiveness of the program in educating research scholars/scientists. The listing and a discussion of the method of research for this ranking appear in The
Chronicle of Higher Education , September 22, 1995. Unfortunately a more recent publication of rankings has not been done. However, another approach to ranking anthropology graduate programs can be found at http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/anthropology/rank/funding
Please note also that in FOB—in the alcove between the second and third floors—there is a recent copy of the American Anthropological Association publication called AnthroGuide . That resource will list areas of specialization for graduate programs, names and contact information for faculty members in that department, names and contact information for all members of the AAA, and other useful information. We ask that the book be used in the building so it is available to all, but please do use it.
Rank Institution Rank Institution
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University of Michigan
University of Chicago
University of California Berkeley
Harvard University
University of Arizona
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University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
Yale University
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University of California Los Angeles
University of California San Diego
11 University of Florida
12 University of Texas Austin
13 New York University
14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
15 University of California Davis
16 Columbia University
17 Washington University
18 Duke University
18 University of Wisconsin Madison
20 University of California Santa Barbara
21 Johns Hopkins University
21 City University of New York
23 University of Virginia
23 Rutgers University New Brunswick
25 University of Pittsburgh
26 Arizona State University
27 Princeton University
29 Indiana University
29 University of Washington
29 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
31 Cornell University
32 Pennsylvania State University
33 Southern Methodist University
34 Northwestern University
35 University of Massachusetts Amherst
36 State University of New York Binghamton
37 State University of New York Buffalo
38 State University of New York Stony Brook
39 State University of New York Albany
40 University of Connecticut
41 University of Hawaii, Manoa
42 Southern Illinois University
43 Brown University
43 University of Iowa
45 University of Oregon
46 Michigan State University
47 Tulane University
47 University of Utah
49 University of Kentucky
50 University of Minnesota
51 Boston University
52 University of Tennessee Knoxville
53 University of Missouri Columbia
53 Temple University
55 University of Colorado
55 University of California Riverside
57 Vanderbilt University
57 University of Kansas
59 Brandeis University
60 University of South Flordia
61 Syracuse University
62 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
63 Washington State University
64 Wayne State University
66 University of Oklahoma
66 University of Rochester
66 Ohio State University
68 American University
69 Catholic University of America
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