Anthropology at Colby College

If you are interested in studying anthropology, you may want to check out the program at Colby College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and has a total student population of 2,155. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Colby.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Anthropology section at the bottom of this page.

Colby Anthropology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology

Colby Anthropology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the anthropology progam at Colby compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The anthropology major at Colby is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Anthropology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	65
	67
Best Anthropology Schools	69
Most Focused Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	82
Most Popular Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	290
Best Value Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	303
Best Value Anthropology Schools	319

Anthropology Student Demographics at Colby

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the anthropology majors at Colby College.

Colby Anthropology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 anthropology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Colby. Of these graduates, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical anthropology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% men. So male students are more repesented at Colby since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Colby are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's in anthropology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Colby also has a doctoral program available in anthropology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Sociology
• Economics
• Political Science & Government

Careers That Anthropology Grads May Go Into

A degree in anthropology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Managers	1,380	$96,570
Anthropology and Archeology Professors	30	$87,240

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nickline4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.