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Northwestern's anthropology graduate program cultivates the field's traditional diversity by encouraging intellectual exchange between various humanistic and scientific perspectives. Our research and graduate education focuses on unifying anthropology's core subdisciplines. We equip graduate students to leverage these interdisciplinary strengths for scholarly research, impactful teaching, and practical applications both within and beyond academic settings. The anthropology graduate program develops professional anthropologists, which is why we exclusively admit students pursuing doctoral degrees.
Admitted students must hold a U.S. bachelor’s degree or a comparable non-U.S. degree from a regionally accredited institution.
The GRE must be taken no more than five years prior to the intended quarter of entry.
Students whose first language is not English must take the TOEFL examination, and to score 550 or higher on the paper-based test, 213 or higher on the computer-based test, or 90 or higher on the internet based test.