Graduate Placement

It’s no secret that the job market is tight for everyone. Yet in the last decade, Anthropology graduate students from WM have been quite successful in job placements. 67% of our graduates have found jobs in Higher Education or Museums. Higher Ed placements include those at Bard College, Arkansas University, Longwood University, and Queens College among others. Museum placements include those at Mount Vernon, Virginia Museum of Natural History, and Concord Museum among others. In addition, many of our MA and PhD students enter our program in order to find competitive placements in the private and federal sector. Recent job placements include those with the National Park Service, Virginia Historic Commission, US Army Corp of Engineers, British Columbia Heritage Branch, and Department of Transportation (Virginia, Delaware, Massachusetts).

Since 2013 our PhD awardees have been highly successful in securing jobs in the discipline. One hundred percent are gainfully employed in anthropology: 39% work in museums, 30% in academic positions, 22% in management or consulting positions at the state, federal, or tribal level or in museums, and 9% for CRM companies.  

Our MA awardees have been equally successful at job placement: 33% have jobs with private archaeology CRM firms, 30% work in related social science positions, 23% consult or work in archaeological CRM positions at the state, federal, or tribal level or in museums, and 7% work as university staff, while another 7% entered anthropology PhD programs.