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
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | University of Cambridge | 98,9 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 97,7 |
| 3 | UCL | 96,1 |
| 4 | Harvard University | 90,7 |
| =5 | Durham University | 90,3 |
| =5 | Leiden University | 90,3 |
| 7 | Stanford University | 89,5 |
| 8 | The Australian National University | 88,8 |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 88,6 |
| 10 | Sapienza University of Rome | 88,0 |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 86,9 |
| 12 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 85,7 |
| 13 | Peking University | 85,1 |
| 14 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 84,8 |
| =15 | Arizona State University | 83,7 |
| =15 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 83,7 |
| 17 | Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel | 83,6 |
| 18 | The University of Arizona | 83,5 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | 83,2 |
| 20 | Yale University | 82,9 |
| 21 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | 82,6 |
| 22 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 82,5 |
| 23 | University of Chicago | 82,4 |
| 24 | The University of Tokyo | 81,7 |
| 25 | Pennsylvania State University | 81,4 |
| =26 | Aarhus University | 81,2 |
| =26 | University of York | 81,2 |
| 28 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | 80,5 |
| =29 | Aix-Marseille University | 79,8 |
| =29 | The University of Sheffield | 79,8 |
| 31 | The University of Sydney | 79,7 |
| 32 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 79,5 |
| 33 | University of Copenhagen | 79,4 |
| 34 | Brown University | 79,2 |
| 35 | University of Vienna | 79,1 |
| =36 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen | 78,8 |
| =36 | University of Southampton | 78,8 |
| 38 | University of Texas at Austin | 78,7 |
| =39 | Columbia University | 78,6 |
| =39 | The University of Auckland | 78,6 |
| =39 | The University of Melbourne | 78,6 |
| 42 | The University of Edinburgh | 78,5 |
| 43 | University of Glasgow | 77,9 |
| =44 | Sorbonne University | 77,7 |
| =44 | The University of Exeter | 77,7 |
| =44 | Universidade de São Paulo | 77,7 |
| 47 | University of British Columbia | 77,2 |
| 48 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 77,1 |
| 49 | University of Toronto | 77,0 |
| =50 | Complutense University of Madrid | 76,1 |
| =50 | The University of Queensland | 76,1 |
| =50 | University of Leicester | 76,1 |
| 51-100 | Altai State University | |
| 51-100 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | |
| 51-100 | Ghent University | |
| 51-100 | Griffith University | |
| 51-100 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| 51-100 | KU Leuven | |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | |
| 51-100 | La Trobe University | |
| 51-100 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | |
| 51-100 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | |
| 51-100 | Monash University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | |
| 51-100 | New York University (NYU) | |
| 51-100 | Newcastle University | |
| 51-100 | Novosibirsk State University | |
| 51-100 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | |
| 51-100 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | |
| 51-100 | Princeton University | |
| 51-100 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | Simon Fraser University | |
| 51-100 | The University of Adelaide | |
| 51-100 | The University of Manchester | |
| 51-100 | The University of Western Australia | |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Sevilla | |
| 51-100 | Università di Padova | |
| 51-100 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Université PSL | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of Aberdeen | |
| 51-100 | University of Amsterdam | |
| 51-100 | University of Bordeaux | |
| 51-100 | University of Cologne | |
| 51-100 | University of Florida | |
| 51-100 | University of Gothenburg | |
| 51-100 | University of Liverpool | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | |
| 51-100 | University of Otago | |
| 51-100 | University of Pisa | |
| 51-100 | University of Reading | |
| 51-100 | University of Siena | |
| 51-100 | University of St Andrews | |
| 51-100 | University of Washington | |
| 51-100 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
