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We offer an overview of TOP-100 best anthropological universities in the world for foreign students. Anthropology is the scientific study of man, human behavior, and society in the past and present. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, and cultural anthropology studies cultural significance, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropology studies the influence of language on social life.
Anthropologists study human language, culture, societies, biological, material remains, biology, primate behavior, even buying habits.
Most working anthropologists have at least a master's degree: it usually takes two years to earn a master's degree after four years of study for a bachelor's degree. Master's programs in Anthropology focus on language, culture, traditions, and the preservation of artifacts for future generations, such as in museums. Programs such as the Master of Cultural Studies or the Master of Social Anthropology explore the nature of human communication and the linguistic and cultural changes taking place in time and space.
A significant proportion of anthropology graduates work in the public, non-profit sectors, in the civil service, in charitable organizations, universities, international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), in museums.
Top 100 best anthropology universities in the world 2026 QS
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | University of Cambridge |
| 4 | UCL |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 6 | University of Chicago |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 8 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 9 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 10 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 11 | Stanford University |
| 12 | Yale University |
| 13 | Columbia University |
| 14 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 15 | University of Amsterdam |
| 16 | University of Toronto |
| 17 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 18 | Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM) |
| 19 | SOAS University of London |
| 20 | The University of Manchester |
| 21 | New York University (NYU) |
| 22 | Leiden University |
| 23 | Princeton University |
| 24 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
| 25 | Durham University |
| 26 | Universidade de S茫o Paulo |
| 27 | Arizona State University |
| 28 | Duke University |
| 29 | University of British Columbia |
| 30 | Cornell University |
| 31 | McGill University |
| 32 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 33 | The University of Melbourne |
| 34 | University of Vienna |
| 35 | University of Copenhagen |
| 36 | The University of Sydney |
| 37 | The University of Tokyo |
| 38 | Kyoto University |
| 39 | University of Oslo |
| 40 | Aarhus University |
| 41 | Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne |
| 42 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) |
| 43 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| 44 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 45 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 46 | Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin |
| 47 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| 48 | University of St Andrews |
| 49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 50 | Eberhard Karls Universit盲t T眉bingen |
