<p>I am applying to U of Mich for their NEC major, but I was just wondering if there were any other good schools out there for it. Preferably with a concentration in ancient Egypt. </p>
<p>The major is somewhat obscure so I'm not even sure how to look for other colleges with it.
Thanks so much.</p>
<p>Brown offers a B.A. in Egyptology - I think the only school in the U.S. to do so. UChicago has a major in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.</p>
<p>The two leading universities on the Ancient Near East are U. Penn and U. Chicago. Hands down. Faculty from those schools pretty much invented the US side of archeology in the ANE.</p>
<p>Thank you both. </p>
<p>Quaere, I was looking for a degree in Egyptology but all the ones I could find were in places like Scotland and Australia lol so thanks so much!</p>
<p>Tarhunt, thanks so much. Just out of curiosity do you know which of those schools has the better study abroad program for the ANE program?</p>
<p>Universities with NELC
[Brown](<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Egyptology/%5DBrown%5B/url%5D(currently">http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Egyptology/)(currently</a> revamping a decidedly mediocre program)</p>
<p>[Penn[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.yale.edu/egyptology/up.htm%5DYale%5B/url">http://www.yale.edu/egyptology/up.htm]Yale[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/programs/egypt_prog.html%5DChicago%5B/url">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/programs/egypt_prog.html]Chicago[/url</a>]
<a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_08/NELC.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_08/NELC.pdf](<a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/nelc/Content/major.htm%5DPenn%5B/url">http://www.sas.upenn.edu/nelc/Content/major.htm)</a></p>
<p>Johns</a> Hopkins
[Hopkins</a> in Egypt Today<a href="awesome%20website">/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.umich.edu/%7Eneareast/programs.html%5DMichigan%5B/url">http://www.umich.edu/~neareast/programs.html]Michigan[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/docs/undergraduate_majors.html%5DUC">http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/docs/undergraduate_majors.html]UC</a> Berkeley](<a href="http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/%5DHopkins">http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/)</p>
<p>[UCLA[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/%5DMemphis%5B/url">http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/]Memphis[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/nmc/undergraduate.htm%5DToronto%5B/url">http://www.utoronto.ca/nmc/undergraduate.htm]Toronto[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Universities with famous Egyptologists
Emory
[url=<a href="http://www.arthistory.emory.edu/faculty/robins.htm%5DArt">http://www.arthistory.emory.edu/faculty/robins.htm]Art</a> History | Faculty & Staff*](<a href="http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/egyptology/index.html%5DUCLA%5B/url">http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/egyptology/index.html)
Untitled</a> Document</p>
<p>Boston</a> U</p>
<p>Penn</a> State</p>
<p>[NYU[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/facultyguide/pmanuelian/%5DTufts%5B/url">http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/facultyguide/pmanuelian/]Tufts[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.plu.edu/%7Eryandp/%5DPacific">http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/]Pacific</a> Lutheran](<a href="http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/anees.0507.grad.info.html%5DNYU%5B/url">http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/anees.0507.grad.info.html)</p>
<p>Colleges with at least one Egyptologist
[Beloit[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.coas.howard.edu/classics/%5DHoward%5B/url">http://www.coas.howard.edu/classics/]Howard[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.cofc.edu/%7Epiccione/index.html%5DCollege">http://www.cofc.edu/~piccione/index.html]College</a> of Charleston](<a href="http://www.beloit.edu/%7Eclassics/index.html%5DBeloit%5B/url">http://www.beloit.edu/~classics/index.html)</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ejmanning/%5DStanford%5B/url">http://www.stanford.edu/~jmanning/]Stanford[/url</a>]</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/%5DUCSB%5B/url">http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/]UCSB[/url</a>]</p>
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<p>I'm afraid I don't. Having said that, I do know that the Oriental Institute of the U of Chicago maintains the Chicago House in Egypt, which is dedicated to Egyptian archeology. I suspect they must have some archeological internships, since archeologists are always looking for diggers.</p>
<p>U Penn, U Mich, U Chicago.</p>
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U Penn, U Mich, U Chicago.
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<p>University of Michigan is really not in the same league in this area as U of Chicago and U of Pennsylvania. That's not a put down. There are some stars at UM, like Gary Beckman, the Hittite scholar, and it's a very strong deparment. But if you want depth, breadth, and stars in a number of fields, as well as a library full of every conceivable book and journal in every language on the topic, going back to the dawn of publication in the area, then U Penn or U Chicago are the right choices.</p>
<p>Just go to the various schools and take a look at the number and the qualification of the faculty. Look for things like which school has the Oriental Institute and publishes dictionaries in various ancient languages.</p>
<p>There is also Harvard:</p>
<p>Harvard</a> University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations</p>
<p>Thanks, because we never would have guessed that Harvard was good at something without being told....</p>
<p>Check out the Penn Museum. Amazing stuff in there.</p>
<p>Really, this is a very specialized area. It's not like economics or psychology, where the difference between top departments and the next level down are slight. The number and quality of faculty really matters at the undergrad level in this field because there are so many lacunas in the record, and because piecing together a total picture depends on accessing so many, and emerging, data.</p>
<p>Harvard's program isn't nearly as good as it used to be, actually. They have no Egyptology offerings at all (it died out when Reisner did), and even their ANES offerings aren't up to their old standards. The best professors are retiring (e.g. Frank Cross), and it recently lost some to UCLA.</p>
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Just out of curiosity do you know which of those schools has the better study abroad program for the ANE program?
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Most study abroad at AU</a> Cairo. It currently has quite a nice location near the Cairo Museum, but it's getting ready to move in the next year or so to a campus a bit futher away. </p>
<p>Columbia has a semester-long</a> dig in Egypt open to undergraduates from all universities. Johns Hopkins usually takes a couple undergraduates to Egypt during the January term, and I think Yale takes some. Penn State offers a study</a> tour and an [url=<a href="http://www.outreach.psu.edu/summerabroad/study-egypt/%5Dexcavation%5B/url">http://www.outreach.psu.edu/summerabroad/study-egypt/]excavation[/url</a>] in the summer.</p>
<p>I checked Harvard's website and found nothing to do with Egyptology. I'm not sure how that got thrown in. </p>
<p>Alright, I'll check those out though. Thanks all.</p>