<p>I'm only a sophmore in high school, but I'm starting the college search because I know what I want to do, and I want to explore my options. So, I love history. I really want to be an archaeologist (which severely limits my potential colleges, I realize). I'm leaning towards a classical focus. If the school doesn't have a specific archaeology program but has a good anthropology program, that works too. Also, I'd like to have a minor in education (as a social studies/history teacher). I appreciate any suggestions, thanks!</p>
<p>Mercyhurst ¶ has a program combining both, a Catholic school.
A friend’s child went there, always had good things to say about Mercyhurst.</p>
<p>does anybody else have any suggestions??</p>
<p>There are many schools in the western states that have very solid archaeology programs with active digs available to students. One of the better ones is University of Colorado Boulder anthropology.</p>
<p>Michigan has a well know Anthroplogy Department:</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Anthropology](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/anthro/]Department”>Anthropology | U-M LSA)</p>
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<p>Not really.<br>
Consider the following long list of schools:
[Ancient</a> Digger Archaeology: Top Schools and Universities for Archaeology and Anthropology](<a href=“http://www.ancientdigger.com/2009/07/top-archaeologyanthropology-schools.html]Ancient”>Ancient Digger Archaeology: Best Graduate and Undergraduate Schools, Universities, and Colleges for Archaeology and Anthropology)</p>
<p>Note that many selective private schools do not offer majors or minors in education.</p>
<p>If you want a small private liberal arts college, check out Bryn Mawr (women only), Beloit, or Hamilton (among others).</p>
<p>You also can try plugging your majors (and other preferences) into the college matchmaker on the CollegeBoard site. Pay attention to the ones that intersect with the list above.</p>
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If you’re a sophomore, I’d say it’s too early to be identifying specific colleges of interest. The best thing to do at this point is to simply visit a few colleges in the area. </p>
<p>Visiting often helps students start thinking about what they want in a college. Urban or rural? Small compact school or large sprawling school? Large Greek scene or none at all? Co-ed or single-sex? Residential campus or off-campus housing? Once you have these criteria figured out, it becomes much easier to create a suitable/shorter list. In any case, suggestions are meaningless without knowing your SAT scores and junior/senior GPA.</p>
<p>Besides, it’s quite possible your interests will change in the next year or so. I went into college as a biology major and graduated (and entered graduate school) in archaeology…such switches are not uncommon. </p>
<p>In general, however, I would say the best colleges are as follows:</p>
<p>Top Tier/Best
Arizona
Berkeley
Brown
Bryn Mawr/Haverford
Michigan
Penn
UCLA
UNC Chapel Hill
UT Austin</p>
<p>Very Good
ASU
Boston U
Cornell
Duke
Emory
Florida State
Franklin & Marshall
NYU
Oberlin
Stanford</p>
<p>Good
Bowdoin
Chicago
Colgate
Dartmouth
Dickinson
GWU
Johns Hopkins
Ohio State
Penn State
Princeton
UVA
Wesleyan
Williams
WUStL</p>
<p>Note that these tiers are not entirely set in stone, and they are not comprehensive.</p>
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Anthropology is an unusual track for classical archaeology unless you’re aiming for a time period or geographic area like Bronze Age or Cypriot archaeology. Even then, it’s best paired with a classics major. </p>
<p>Much more relevant is Michigan’s superb classics program. IPCAA is one of the better PhD programs out there, though it’s admittedly weaker now that it lost its two star faculty to the much better funded archaeology program at Brown. A motivated undergraduate would do well there.</p>
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Most of the states west of the Mississippi so well-known for American archaeology have decidedly poor classical offerings and are usually not worth perusal - universities in Arizona, California, Texas, and <em>maybe</em> Colorado are exceptions.</p>
<p>Sorry I was considering the american archaeology side of things. I was thinking that the hardest part of archaeology is breaking into the field so going to a school that gets you on digs would be very important. It seems to me that the number of opportunities for american students to get on american archaeological digs is greater than the number of opportunities for american students to get on forigen digs but I could very well be wrong there.</p>