Bachelor in Anthropology (Bachelor's)

Tuition fees are 62,392 USD per year.

The Anthropology major offers two distinct tracks: Sociocultural Anthropology and Archaeology and Material Culture. Students in the Sociocultural track explore social orders and meanings with a global approach, studying topics like race, gender, and the environment. The Archaeology and Material Culture track focuses on human evolution and the material cultures of historical and contemporary groups, engaging with cultural diversity and objects. Students have opportunities to engage in research.

Focus areas include Sociocultural Anthropology, Archaeology and Material Culture.

The major requires a minimum of ten courses, distributed across core requirements and electives tailored to student interests. Students are not required to write a senior thesis or complete a senior exercise for the major.

Graduates pursue careers such as public health professionals.

Admission and course participation are based solely on academic interest, performance, and declared major.

For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 17% of applicants.

Students from across the nation and 39 countries contribute to Pitzer’s community in Claremont, California. International students make up 9.6% of the student population. Campus life includes four student-run spaces, a student senate with 54 representatives, and opportunities to influence academic policy, faculty hiring, building design and campus artworks. Every student completes a social responsibility praxis course with a service-learning component before graduation, while most complete more than 40 community engagement hours through that course. Six mixed-use residence halls include solar panels, green roofs, living walls, gray-water systems and water-efficient fixtures.

Since 1963, Pitzer has organized its education around social responsibility, interdisciplinary learning, environmental sustainability, intercultural understanding and student engagement. Students can choose from more than 60 majors and minors across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and interdisciplinary studies, while more than 2,000 courses are available across Pitzer and The Claremont Colleges. A 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio supports close academic work. Faculty from different fields often influence one another’s work and co-teach, and students can create their own major. International and globally minded students can take part in study abroad programs; 53.1% of the Class of 2026 participated in study abroad. The college’s community includes students with connections from Los Angeles and New York to Nepal, and its programs connect academic study with community engagement.