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Hunter College Master in Anthropology
Hunter College

Hunter College

Master in Anthropology

New York, USA

Master degree

English

Sep 2026

Key Summary

    About : The Master in Anthropology offers a comprehensive study of human societies and cultures, focusing on analytical and critical skills needed to understand and interpret social behaviors. The program is structured to foster both theoretical knowledge and practical applications, preparing students for research and fieldwork.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates may pursue various paths, including roles in research, cultural resource management, non-profit organizations, and academia. This program equips students with the necessary tools to work as anthropologists, community organizers, or in policy-making roles.

The most important characteristics of our program include the following: The Department maintains a commitment to a four-field approach to graduate training despite an apparent national trend towards increasing specialization at earlier levels of graduate training. We feel that a substantial background in sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, and linguistics is essential to student training irrespective of sub-disciplinary specialization.

Current theoretical approaches to problems of anthropological interest increasingly blur the traditional distinctions between sub-disciplines. Students with only minimal cross-quadrant training will be equally limited in their choice of future research topics. Further, in an increasingly difficult job market, there is growing pressure for a more generalized competency. As anthropology PhDs increasingly find employment in smaller institutions and outside academia, the drawbacks of highly specialized, wholly thesis-focused graduate programs become more serious. We feel that a student with a solid four-field background can readily opt to specialize, while one-talent specialists are hard to retrain as generalists.

The Department maintains stringent degree requirements such that students who complete the program have reached a level of training equivalent to, if not superior to virtually any other anthropology Master's program in the country.