Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

Students in OU's Department of Anthropology study everything that is human, covering the breadth of human existence from prehistory to the present. Undergraduate majors can take courses from the four areas of anthropology - linguistic, social-cultural, archaeological, and biological anthropology. The Department of Anthropology has many undergraduate opportunities for hands-on field, laboratory, and museum experiences that apply classroom learning to the real world. Students can: 1. Spend a summer taking an archaeological field school and learning excavation techniques, 2. Volunteer in professors' archaeology and biological anthropology labs, 3. Work with faculty and tribes helping to maintain Native American languages in Oklahoma, 4. Help a faculty member on a health or medical anthropology project, 5. Volunteer at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History doing socio-cultural, linguistic, or archaeological anthropology, 6. Do an internship in any of the four areas of anthropology plus museum studies.

Admission to the University of Oklahoma is based on completion of a rigorous secondary school curriculum, demonstrated by a recognized certificate of completion that would qualify you for entrance into a university in your country.

Minimum 3.0 GPA

Applicants must submit official transcripts from each institution attended.

Freshman must submit official transcripts from all secondary or middle schools attended. If secondary school in your country includes standardized graduation exams and certificates, official copies of these should be submitted.
All freshman applicants are required to submit one letter of recommendation, two additional letters may be submitted.

Any high school official, including a counselor, teacher, principal, etc. Preferably someone who knows the student well.
Students will need to know the name and email address of their preferred recommender so he/she can be contacted about composing the letter of recommendation.
79 on the Internet-based TOEFL
6.5 on the IELTS