A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology and prehistoric archeology, hominid evolution, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory, socio-cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, research methods, and applications to areas such as medicine, forensic pathology, museum studies, and international affairs.
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Top 14
Illinois
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Anthropology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | University of Chicago
Chicago, IL | 38
(3.2%) |  |  | |
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| | Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL | 13
(2.1%) |  |  | |
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| | Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL | 30
(1.4%) |  | | |
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| | University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL | 42
(1.3%) | |  | |
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| | Northwestern University
Evanston, IL | 18
(0.9%) | | | |
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| | Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, IL | 11
(0.7%) | |  | |
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| | Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL | 3
(0.6%) | | | |
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| | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL | 13
(0.6%) | | | |
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| | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL | 43
(0.6%) | | | |
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| | Illinois State University
Normal, IL | 21
(0.5%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.