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TOP-100 best universities in Archaeology 2026 Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in Archaeology 2026 Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Archeology

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

#	University	Ranking
1	University of Cambridge	98.4
2	University of Oxford	97.2
3	UCL	95.7
4	Harvard University	90.7
5	Durham University	89.8
6	Leiden University	89.1
7	Sapienza University of Rome	88.9
8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	85.9
9	Stanford University	84.4
=10	Arizona State University	84.2
=10	Australian National University (ANU)	84.2
12	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	83.9
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	83.5
=14	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	83.2
=14	The University of Arizona	83.2
16	University of York	82.7
17	Peking University	82.2
18	Aarhus University	81.5
19	Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna	80.9
20	Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel	80.7
21	Yale University	80.5
=22	Freie Universitaet Berlin	80.2
=22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	80.2
24	Brown University	79.9
25	University of Chicago	79.8
=26	The University of Tokyo	79.7
=26	University of Leicester	79.7
28	The University of Auckland	79.3
29	Universität Heidelberg	79
30	University of Southampton	78.9
=31	University of Copenhagen	78
=31	University of Toronto	78
33	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	77.9
34	University of Exeter	77.6
35	The University of Sheffield	77.5
=36	University of Pennsylvania	76.8
=36	University of Vienna	76.8
38	The University of Queensland	76.7
39	The University of Sydney	76.6
40	The University of Edinburgh	76.4
41	University of Glasgow	75.9
42	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	75.6
=43	Pennsylvania State University	75.4
=43	The University of Melbourne	75.4
=45	Columbia University	74.9
=45	Fudan University	74.9
47	Aix-Marseille University	74.5
48	La Trobe University	74.3
49	University of Groningen	74.2
50	Flinders University	74.1
51-100	Boston University	n/a
51-100	Cardiff University	n/a
51-100	Complutense University of Madrid	n/a
51-100	Cornell University	n/a
51-100	Griffith University	n/a
51-100	Kyoto University	n/a
51-100	Monash University	n/a
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	n/a
51-100	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	n/a
51-100	New York University (NYU)	n/a
51-100	Newcastle University	n/a
51-100	Northwest University (China)	n/a
51-100	Northwestern University	n/a
51-100	Novosibirsk State University	n/a
51-100	Princeton University	n/a
51-100	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	n/a
51-100	SOAS University of London	n/a
51-100	Seoul National University	n/a
51-100	Simon Fraser University	n/a
51-100	Sorbonne University	n/a
51-100	Tel Aviv University	n/a
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	n/a
51-100	The University of Manchester	n/a
51-100	The University of Western Australia	n/a
51-100	Tohoku University	n/a
51-100	Tsinghua University	n/a
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo	n/a
51-100	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	n/a
51-100	Universitat de Barcelona	n/a
51-100	University College Dublin	n/a
51-100	University of Amsterdam	n/a
51-100	University of Bordeaux	n/a
51-100	University of Bristol	n/a
51-100	University of British Columbia	n/a
51-100	University of Cape Town	n/a
51-100	University of Cologne	n/a
51-100	University of Colorado Boulder	n/a
51-100	University of Florida	n/a
51-100	University of Haifa	n/a
51-100	University of Liverpool	n/a
51-100	University of Oslo	n/a
51-100	University of Otago	n/a
51-100	University of Reading	n/a
51-100	University of Texas at Austin	n/a
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	n/a
51-100	Università di Padova	n/a
51-100	Université PSL	n/a
51-100	Vanderbilt University	n/a
51-100	Waseda University	n/a
51-100	Wuhan University	n/a

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