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 15
Massachusetts
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Anthropology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Hampshire College
Amherst, MA | 13
(4.5%) |  |  | |
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| | Harvard University
Cambridge, MA | 76
(4.3%) |  |  | |
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| | Smith College
Northampton, MA | 28
(4.0%) |  | | |
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| | Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA | 21
(3.8%) | | | |
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| | Wheaton College
Norton, MA | 12
(3.3%) | | | |
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| | Brandeis University
Waltham, MA | 20
(2.4%) | | | |
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| | Amherst College
Amherst, MA | 10
(2.2%) | | | |
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| | University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, MA | 25
(1.7%) | |  | |
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| | Williams College
Williamstown, MA | 6
(1.2%) | | | |
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| | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA | 47
(1.1%) | | | |
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