Anthro/Archae at Top-Ranked Schools

warblersrule
Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:26:23 +0000

There are many excellent archaeology programs. Each of them has different strengths, but here’s how I would rank them:

Liberal Arts Colleges

1. Bryn Mawr College
Haverford College

2. Oberlin College

3. Beloit College

4. Dickinson College

5. Lycoming College

6. Willamette University

7. Franklin & Marshall College

8. Hamilton College

9. Washington & Lee University

Private Universities

1. University of Pennsylvania

2. Harvard University

3. University of Chicago

4. Boston University

5. Stanford University
Washington University in St. Louis

6. New York University

7. Cornell University

8. Yale University

9. Columbia University

Public Universities

1. University of California-Los Angeles

2. University of Arizona

3. University of California-Berkeley

4. Arizona State University
University of Michigan

5. University of Texas

6. University of Florida

7. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

8. Pennsylvania State University

9. University of California-Santa Barbara
University of Pittsburgh

In your home state, U Oregon and Portland State have decent archaeology programs and might be good safeties. The best programs in archaeology in the Pacific Northwest are U Washington, Simon Fraser, and U British Columbia.