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The anthropology
faculty numbers 11 full-time scholars, three part-time scholars,
five emeritus professors, and a museum director.
The undergraduate
anthropology program at NIU has approximately 80 anthropology majors
working on either a B.A. or B.S. degree.
The graduate
program enrolls between 25 and 35 students working toward the M.A.
degree. In the past five years, our graduates have been accepted
at the Universities of Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Wisconsin, Washington,
Indiana, Colorado, and New Mexico, as well as Harvard, Vanderbilt,
Northwestern, SMU, Washington University, City University of New
York, Johns Hopkins, State University of New York at Binghamton,
and Yale. During this period, our M.A.s have been hired in several
community colleges (Kishwaukee, Waubonsee, College of DuPage) and
at the Field Museum and American Museum of Natural History.
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