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We present TOP-100 best universities in the world in archaeology for foreign students. Obtaining a degree in archaeology requires three or four years, the programs combine elements of the humanities and natural sciences. Most courses offer the opportunity to study abroad for a year, where you can visit archaeological sites, some universities offer internships in archaeology at local museums.
At the postgraduate level, students choose to study a specific area of archaeology: forensic, historical, or digital. Most Master's programmes are taught over a period of one or two years.
Leading archaeology programs include several modules:
- Practical skills of archaeology
- History and background
- Technologies in archaeology
- Forensic archaeology
- Artifact Analysis
- Archaeological research
- Ancient civilizations.
Vacancies for graduates of archaeology programs:
- Researcher
- Archaeologist
- Restorer
- Heritage Manager
- Historic Buildings Inspector/Building Conservation Specialist
- Teacher
- Curator of a museum/gallery/gallery.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Archeology
| 1 | University of Cambridge |
| 2 | University of Oxford |
| 3 | UCL |
| 4 | Harvard University |
| 5 | Durham University |
| 6 | Leiden University |
| 7 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 9 | Stanford University |
| 10 | Arizona State University |
| 11 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 12 | Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne |
| 13 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 14 | Eberhard Karls Universit盲t T眉bingen |
| 15 | The University of Arizona |
| 16 | University of York |
| 17 | Peking University |
| 18 | Aarhus University |
| 19 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit脿 di Bologna |
| 20 | Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel |
| 21 | Yale University |
| 22 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 24 | Brown University |
| 25 | University of Chicago |
| 26 | The University of Tokyo |
| 27 | University of Leicester |
| 28 | The University of Auckland |
| 29 | Universit盲t Heidelberg |
| 30 | University of Southampton |
| 31 | University of Copenhagen |
| 32 | University of Toronto |
| 33 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen |
| 34 | University of Exeter |
| 35 | The University of Sheffield |
| 36 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 37 | University of Vienna |
| 38 | The University of Queensland |
| 39 | The University of Sydney |
| 40 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 41 | University of Glasgow |
| 42 | Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM) |
| 43 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 44 | The University of Melbourne |
| 45 | Columbia University |
| 46 | Fudan University |
| 47 | Aix-Marseille University |
| 48 | La Trobe University |
| 49 | University of Groningen |
| 50 | Flinders University |
