The Rutgers Department of Anthropology Graduate Programs are ranked within the top ten graduate programs in research universities nationwide by Academic Analytics (The Chronicle of Higher Education November 16, 2007). Assessments are based on the 2006 Scholarly Productivity Index, an objective measure that includes the number of books and journal articles written by a program’s faculty, the number of times their work is cited by other scholars, and the number of awards, honors, and grant dollars they receive.

 

The Department’s Evolutionary Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology programs were assessed independently, resulting in the following rankings:

 

Anthropology - 2007
1)      UC - San Francisco (Medical Anthropology)
2)      Penn State U. (Anthropology)
3)      Harvard U. (Anthropology)
4)      U. Chicago (Anthropology)
5)      Arizona State U. (Physical Anthropology)
6)      UC - Los Angeles (Anthropology)
7)      Rutgers - New Brunswick (Evolutionary Anthropology)
8)      Stanford U. (Anthropological Sciences)
9)      Rutgers - New Brunswick (Cultural Anthropology)
10)    U. Michigan - Ann Arbor (Anthropology)

 

Read more about how the index works at http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?bycat=true&primary=3&secondary=28&year=2007