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Anthropology with a Year in Professional Practice

Entry requirements


A level

B,B,B-B,C,C

Access to HE Diploma

D:27,M:12,P:6

GCSE/National 4/National 5

Applicants should have grade C or 4 in Mathematics GCSE or a suitable equivalent level qualification.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

30

Applicants should have either an overall grade of 30 or 15 points at higher level.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DDM-DMM

Scottish Higher qualifications are considered on an individual basis.

UCAS Tariff

104-120

About this course


Course option

4years

Sandwich | 2024

Subject

Anthropology

Find your place in an ever-changing world. Our creative and critical thinkers will delve into the history of our species and explore the amazing diversity of human cultures.

Overview
Examine how we evolved, why we live in different societies, and how we interact with one another and the environment. You’ll develop insight into social and cultural difference, understand the history, behaviour, and evolution of our species and gain a unique perspective invaluable to employers across a wide range of industries.

Get practical with facilities like the brand new micro CT-scanner within the Imaging Centre for Life Sciences, the Ethnobiology Laboratory for identification of useful plants, and the Charles Darwin Lab with its impressive fossil cast collection. Field trips present another opportunity for you to learn beyond your lectures at zoos, museums, religious sites, and the financial district.

Reasons to study Anthropology at Kent
- Ranked 10th for student satisfaction in The Complete University Guide 2023.

- Be inspired by academics at the forefront of their fields including biological, environmental, evolutionary, and social anthropology.

- Add a "year in" to expand your skills and apply your knowledge. Add a Year in Professional Practice or live, study and be immersed in a different culture with a Year Abroad. You can also enhance your career prospects by adding a Year in Data Analytics, Year in Computing, or a Year in a Language. Our current Biological Anthropology student Abigail Shortland studied a year in Spanish.

- Ongoing support in your studies through our excellent staff-student ratio, regular workshops and alumni talks as well as dedicated academic advisors and peer mentoring scheme.

- Make the degree your own. Take more social or biological anthropology focussed modules and earn a ‘BA Anthropology-social’ or a 'BSc Anthropology-biological' degree, or maintain a mix of modules and earn a BSc Anthropology degree.

What you'll learn
Be introduced to anthropology, its foundations and its leading thinkers. Benefit from practical learning through lab-based sessions and visits away from campus. Enjoy a varied choice of optional modules enabling you to expand your perspective or develop a specialism. You can study human sexual behaviour, medical anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, power and money, or discover more about primate communication or forensic anthropology, or any combination of the above among many other diverse topics.

Take the opportunity to gain work experience with relevant organisations and apply your academic skills in a practical context with a year in professional practice. Students have had placements with:
•Canterbury Archaeological Trust
•Cranfield Recovery and Identification of Conflict Causalities team
•Kyoto University Primate Research Institute
•Oxford University Museum of Natural History
•Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Modules

On this degree you are introduced to anthropology, its foundations and its leading thinkers. You also benefit from practical learning through lab-based sessions and a number of visits away from campus.
You also enjoy a wide and varied choice of optional modules enabling you to expand your perspective or develop a specialism. You can study human sexual behaviour, or medical anthropology; take modules in ethnicity and nationalism, and power and money or discover more about primate communication or forensic anthropology.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£22,700
per year
International
£22,700
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

University of Kent

Department:

School of Anthropology and Conservation

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

67%
Anthropology

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Anthropology

Teaching and learning

90%
Staff make the subject interesting
96%
Staff are good at explaining things
77%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
67%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

79%
Library resources
96%
IT resources
85%
Course specific equipment and facilities
54%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

95%
UK students
5%
International students
24%
Male students
76%
Female students
77%
2:1 or above
13%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
C
C

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Anthropology

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£20,000
med
Average annual salary
100%
high
Employed or in further education
39%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

16%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
12%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers
12%
Other elementary services occupations

This is a pretty flexible degree and a good one if you want to keep your options open. Just over 1,250 graduates completed anthropology degrees last year, and they were well spread out across a whole range of jobs — many industries have jobs that can be done by anthropology graduates and unlike a lot of degrees, there aren't many jobs we can point to and say ‘graduates from this degree do that job’. Management, marketing, housing and recruitment jobs are the most popular, though, and many graduates go into the education or social care sectors. Graduates are also rather more likely than average to work in London, or to go overseas to work. This is quite a popular subject at postgraduate level, and if you want to go into research, you'll need to think about postgrad study - and it's one of the few where numbers are on the up at the moment.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Anthropology

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£19k

£19k

£25k

£25k

£27k

£27k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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