BA/BS in Anthropology is a bachelor's degree in Social & Cultural Studies programme taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,500 per year (CAD 6,750 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Bachelor's Degree
Field:Social & Cultural Studies
Duration: 4 years
Local tuition: CAD 6,750 / year
International tuition: CAD 22,500 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Anthropology at Memorial University is a four-year Bachelor of Arts program, with an honours option, delivered on the St. John's campus through the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The program examines how people and groups around the world engage with social, cultural, political, and economic processes, using fieldwork-based methods to study practices, languages, and systems of power across societies. Students can declare anthropology as their major at the point of application or later in their studies, combining core anthropology coursework with electives and, where relevant, a minor. The program is positioned as useful preparation for further professional study in fields such as medicine, nursing, social work, education, law, and business, given its emphasis on cross-cultural understanding, alongside more direct paths into research, journalism, international development, public policy, or human rights work. It suits students drawn to comparative, fieldwork-oriented study of human societies and willing to pursue further graduate or professional training for many of the career paths it opens.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:70.00 / %
Admission Requirements: This page defers entirely to Memorial's general admission requirements for direct entry into the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences as a Bachelor of Arts, without restating them here: per Memorial's own general admission page, that means a Canadian high-school average of at least 70% across the required senior-level (Grade 12) subjects, with separate curriculum- and country-specific tables covering international qualifications. Applicants choose Bachelor of Arts as their programme and may declare Anthropology as a major at application or later. The page states no separate English-language-test score; Memorial's university-wide requirement applies to applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS Academic 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0 in Reading/Writing) or TOEFL iBT 83 overall with at least 20 in Reading and Writing. Deadlines are March 1 (Fall/September), October 1 (Winter/January) and February 1 (Spring/May).
Application Details
Start Date:September, January and May
Application Deadline:Memorial University's undergraduate application system opens one year ahead of each semester for the 2027 cycle: for Fall 2027 entry the portal opens 10 September 2026, the priority deadline (also the early-entrance-scholarship deadline) is 1 March 2027, the document deadline is 20 August 2027, and applications finally close 9 September 2027; Winter 2027 entry has a priority deadline of 1 October 2026 and closes 6 January 2027; Spring 2027 entry closes 11 May 2027 with a priority date of 1 February 2027. International applicants use the same direct application to Memorial and are only advised to apply at least 12 weeks before their intended semester starts; no fixed international closing date is published. Late domestic applications are still considered as time, resources and space permit, so admission is effectively rolling past the priority date up to the final close. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
