What jobs can I get with an Anthropology degree?

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out of all the degress my college offers, anthropology is the only one which i like. what kind of jobs can i get with an anthropology degree?

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Almost anything. (A lot of questions like this one have already been asked and answered on Yahoo Answers, so I'm pasting the links to some of those in my sources below.)

It is true that there are not many jobs in anthropology specifically, but most careers and jobs are not fed into by a particular major. Sure, if you want to be an engineer, you pretty much need to study engineering or physics in college. But, at least in the U.S., with most other careers you can major in whatever you like. If you want to be a physician you can major in anthro and just take the few classes needed for pre-med students. Anthro students can go to all kinds of professional schools afterwards from law school to journalism or public health. Generally (unless you want to be an engineer), an undergraduate education isn't supposed to be a vocational one and it isn't supposed to direct you towards a specific career only and limit you; it's supposed to give you a breadth of knowledge and analysis skills that will aid you wherever you go and you're supposed to try to take classes that will give you the kinds of knowledge and skills (whether of human behavior, a geographical region, laboratory skills, writing skills, history, knowledge of an industry, etc.) that you need for the kinds of careers you are considering. For almost all careers (and just your daily life), anthropology does a GREAT job of that. But there's certainly no guarantee that if you study anthropology you'll get into a grad or professional school in the field of your choice, or that you'll get a great job that you enjoy or that pays well; there's a lot more to achieving those things than any major.

If your goal is to get a job in anthropology, there are jobs but not many. Here's a website that has some information about this: http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/majo... . For archaeologists you may be able to find archaeologists who'll support you while you help them on a dig (sometimes they charge you to go on the digs, you just have to look, there are websites that list them). There are also Cultural Resource Management companies (like if some company's building a new office building and they find it was some historical site a CRM company might be hired to excavate before construction can continue) but I don't think it's easy to find openings. People with graduate degrees in anthropology (and most major U.S. graduate programs are PhD programs) tend to look for academic jobs at universities or colleges though they can also work for museums, non-profit or non-governmental organizations, and think tanks. There are also applied anthropology jobs; a lot of big businesses place a great deal of value on the knowledge of cultural anthropologists; those jobs actually pay very well though there is disagreement among anthropologists about how ethical some of those jobs are. Right now one of the most popularized jobs (in popular culture like the TV show Bones) is in forensic anthropology, the kind of anthropological jobs shown there are few and far between. But this doesn't mean that for people who want jobs in anthropology, studying anthropology is a bad move. If you're looking to get rich and famous it probably is a bad move but historically, people who choose to pursue careers in anthropology itself don't do so because their goal is wealth; they usually have to love anthropology very much and be very passionate about answering anthropological questions to stick with it.

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Unfortunately, jobs in anthropology do not pay well and competition is fierce for those that are available. However, the great thing about an anthropology degree is that it is applicable in other fields such as business. Staying within the field (As in teaching or CRM) your friend's top salary is probably going to be at the most about $40,000 while outside she could make $60,000 or $70,000

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What jobs can I get with an Anthropology degree?
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I know a very pretty girl working in a coffee shop with a degree in forensic anthropology. I guess that's a job.

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Most of America's professional anthropologists have traditionally worked in higher educational institutions, teaching and researching, but today there are many other career options for trained anthropologists. Many anthropologists with master's degrees or bachelor's degrees work for contract archaeology firms at archaeological sites, in physical anthropology laboratories, and in museums in a wide range of areas. Similarly, there are many opportunities as social science researchers and in other areas available to anthropologists at every level of training. A doctorate is required for most academic jobs. The nonacademic employment of cultural anthropologists is greatly expanding as the demand for research on humans and their behavior increases. Since 1985, over half of all new PhDs in anthropology have taken nonacademic positions in research institutes, nonprofit associations, government agencies, world organizations, and private corporations. While the job market for academic anthropologists is relatively steady, demand for anthropologists is increasing in other areas, stimulated by a growing need for analysts and researchers with sharp thinking skills who can manage, evaluate and interpret the large volume of data on human behavior.

Academic. On campuses, in departments of anthropology, and in research laboratories, anthropologists teach and conduct research. They spend a great deal of time preparing for classes, writing lectures, grading papers, working with individual students, composing scholarly articles, and writing longer monographs and books. A number of academic anthropologists find careers in other departments or university programs, such as schools of medicine, epidemiology, public health, ethnic studies, cultural studies, community or area studies, linguistics, education, ecology, cognitive psychology and neural science.

Corporations, Nonprofit organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Federal, State and Local Government. Anthropology offers many lucrative applications of anthropological knowledge in a variety of occupational settings, in both the public and private sectors. Non-governmental organizations, such as international health organizations and development banks employ anthropologists to help design and implement a wide variety of programs, worldwide and nationwide. State and local governmental organizations use anthropologists in planning, research and managerial capacities. Many corporations look explicitly for anthropologists, recognizing the utility of their perspective on a corporate team. Contract archaeology has been a growth occupation with state and federal legislative mandates to assess cultural resources affected by government funded projects. Forensic anthropologists, in careers glamorized by Hollywood and popular novels, not only work with police departments to help identify mysterious or unknown remains but work in university and museum settings. A corporate anthropologist working in market research might conduct targeted focus groups to examine consumer preference patterns not readily apparent through statistical or survey methods.

Anthropologists fill the range of career niches occupied by other social scientists in corporations, government, nonprofit corporations, and various trade and business settings. Most jobs filled by anthropologists don't mention the word anthropologist in the job announcement; such positions are broadly defined to attract researchers, evaluators and project managers. Anthropologists' unique training and perspective enable them to compete successfully for these jobs. Whatever anthropologists' titles, their research and analysis skills lead to a wide variety of career options, ranging from the oddly fascinating to the routinely bureaucratic.