Anthropology at Lehman College

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

Lehman is located in Bronx, New York and approximately 15,091 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 72 students received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Lehman.

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

Lehman Anthropology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology

Lehman Anthropology Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The anthropology major at Lehman 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
Most Popular Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
	160
Best Anthropology Schools	321

Earnings of Lehman Anthropology Graduates

The median salary of anthropology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Lehman is $25,486. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $25,284 for all anthropology bachelor's degree recipients.

Anthropology Student Demographics at Lehman

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

Lehman Anthropology Bachelor’s Program

The anthropology program at Lehman awarded 72 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 21% of these degrees went to men with the other 79% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% more racial-ethnic minorities in its anthropology bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	35
White	3
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Geography & Cartography
• Economics
• Political Science & Government
• Sociology

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 NY, the home state for Lehman College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Anthropology and Archeology Professors	1,080	$112,460
Anthropologists and Archeologists	60	$67,860

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 Jim.henderson under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.