Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

If you plan to study anthropology, take a look at what Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SIUE is located in Edwardsville, Illinois and approximately 12,860 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from SIUE.

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

SIUE Anthropology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology

SIUE Anthropology Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The anthropology major at SIUE 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 Focused Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	398

Earnings of SIUE Anthropology Graduates

The median salary of anthropology students who receive their bachelor's degree at SIUE is $27,937. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 10% higher than the national average of $25,284 for all anthropology bachelor's degree recipients.

Anthropology Student Demographics at SIUE

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the anthropology majors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

SIUE Anthropology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from SIUE in 2020-2021, 20% were men and 80% were women.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in anthropology at SIUE 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 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a bachelor's in anthropology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Economics
• Political Science & Government
• Geography & Cartography
• 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 IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Anthropology and Archeology Professors	290	$88,770
Anthropologists and Archeologists	110	$62,650

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 Illinois2011 (Tyler Warren) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.