Anthropology at Dartmouth College

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

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and approximately 6,292 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,384 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 2021, 38 of them were anthropology majors.

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

Dartmouth Anthropology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology

Dartmouth Anthropology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks anthropology programs across the country. The following shows how Dartmouth performed in these rankings.

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 Dartmouth 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
Best Anthropology Schools	3
	6
Most Popular Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	57
Best Value Anthropology Schools	126

How Much Do Anthropology Graduates from Dartmouth Make?

The median salary of anthropology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Dartmouth is $44,153. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 75% higher than the national average of $25,284 for all anthropology bachelor's degree recipients.

Anthropology Student Demographics at Dartmouth

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

Dartmouth Anthropology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of anthropology bachelor's degrees went to men and 87% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Dartmouth College with a bachelor's in anthropology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	16
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

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

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 NH, the home state for Dartmouth College.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
Managers	950	$123,580

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 Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.