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Explore the top 50 best universities in the world in classical history for international students! Courses in classical history include a wide range of topics, reflecting the research specialization:
- Ancient history
- Classic
- Archaeology, including Byzantine studies.
Graduates gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of:
- Classics
- Ancient history
- Methodologies for interpreting evidence
- Theoretical and analytical approaches
- Skills in evaluating, analyzing, interpreting different types of evidence
- Latin, Greek
- Evidence gathering, critical analysis of texts, images and material objects
- Writing balanced arguments.
Graduates continue to study classical history at the level of master, doctor or successfully find work as a teacher, journalist, curator of museums, galleries, are engaged in archeology, field, laboratory research.
Top 50 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Classics & Ancient History
| 1 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 2 | Fudan University |
| 3 | Peking University |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | University of Cambridge |
| 6 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 7 | Leiden University |
| 8 | Universit盲t Heidelberg |
| 9 | Harvard University |
| 10 | Scuola Normale Superiore |
| 11 | Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne |
| 12 | Princeton University |
| 13 | University of St Andrews |
| 14 | Yale University |
| 15 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 16 | Zhejiang University |
| 17 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 18 | Kyoto University |
| 19 | Columbia University |
| 20 | The University of Tokyo |
| 21 | Nanjing University |
| 22 | University of Chicago |
| 23 | University of Pisa |
| 24 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| 25 | Tel Aviv University |
| 26 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 27 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 28 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit脿 di Bologna |
| 29 | Durham University |
| 30 | Sorbonne University |
| 31 | Sun Yat-sen University |
| 32 | Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin |
| 33 | Beijing Normal University |
| 34 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| 35 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 36 | King's College London |
| 37 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen |
| 38 | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 39 | Eberhard Karls Universit盲t T眉bingen |
| 40 | Ghent University |
| 41 | KU Leuven |
| 42 | Universit茅 catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) |
| 43 | University of Exeter |
| 44 | Ritsumeikan University |
| 45 | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" |
| 46 | Keio University |
| 47 | Kyushu University |
| 48 | Tohoku University |
| 49 | Universit茅 PSL |
| 50 | University of Toronto |
| 51 | Aarhus University |
