Social sciences

Anthropology

Wagner College · Staten Island, NY

Medium evidenceMatched peers11 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$52,000Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$26,146Same subject at 4 matched peer institutions · bachelor's
Annual credentials awarded5Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$26,739
Same subject · national$25,194
Social sciences · national$32,389

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 11 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $21,850–$31,716.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Eckerd CollegeAnthropology$25,967
Pacific Lutheran UniversityAnthropology$22,192
Willamette UniversityAnthropology$21,508
Monmouth UniversityAnthropology$50,606
Hamline UniversityAnthropology$31,762
Drew UniversityAnthropology$31,670
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)Anthropology$29,685
Lee UniversityAnthropology$26,739
Ithaca CollegeAnthropology$19,227
Washington CollegeAnthropology$33,938
Beloit CollegeAnthropology$20,482
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗