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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sapienza University of Rome | 97.8 |
| 2 | Fudan University | 95.5 |
| 3 | Peking University | 91.9 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | 91.8 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | 91.4 |
| 6 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 90.8 |
| 7 | Leiden University | 89.8 |
| 8 | Universität Heidelberg | 88.6 |
| 9 | Harvard University | 88.5 |
| 10 | Scuola Normale Superiore | 87.7 |
| 11 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 86 |
| 12 | Princeton University | 85.3 |
| 13 | University of St Andrews | 85.1 |
| 14 | Yale University | 84.6 |
| 15 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 82.1 |
| 16 | Zhejiang University | 82 |
| 17 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 81.8 |
| 18 | Kyoto University | 81.6 |
| 19 | Columbia University | 80.9 |
| 20 | The University of Tokyo | 80.6 |
| =21 | Nanjing University | 80 |
| =21 | University of Chicago | 80 |
| 23 | University of Pisa | 79.6 |
| =24 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | 79.1 |
| =24 | Tel Aviv University | 79.1 |
| 26 | The University of Edinburgh | 78.5 |
| 27 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 78.4 |
| 28 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | 78.2 |
| =29 | Durham University | 78.1 |
| =29 | Sorbonne University | 78.1 |
| =29 | Sun Yat-sen University | 78.1 |
| 32 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 76.8 |
| 33 | Beijing Normal University | 76.5 |
| 34 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | 76.4 |
| 35 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 75.9 |
| =36 | King's College London | 75.8 |
| =36 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 75.8 |
| 38 | Hong Kong Baptist University | 75.7 |
| 39 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 75.4 |
| 40 | Ghent University | 74.8 |
| =41 | KU Leuven | 74.3 |
| =41 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | 74.3 |
| 43 | University of Exeter | 73.8 |
| =44 | Ritsumeikan University | 73.7 |
| =44 | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" | 73.7 |
| =46 | Keio University | 73.5 |
| =46 | Kyushu University | 73.5 |
| =46 | Tohoku University | 73.5 |
| 49 | Université PSL | 73.3 |
| 50 | University of Toronto | 73 |
