<p>I'm a current junior and I'm looking toward possibly going into Archaeology, majoring in Classics with a concentration toward the historical and cultural aspect as opposing to the language side, or studying ancient history. Could someone recommend some good schools for that? Also, I would like the college I go to be at least around the size, but preferably larger, than my current high school, which has a student body of around 2500. So no liberal art schools with less than 2000 students, please.</p>
<p>National Research Council program quality ranking</p>
<p>Classics:
1 Harvard 4.79
2 Cal Berkeley 4.77
3 Michigan 4.54
4 Princeton 4.16
5 Yale 4.12
6 Brown 4.10
7 Chicago 4.00
8 Texas 3.92
9 UCLA 3.89
10 Columbia 3.86</p>
<p>Beloit College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
College of Holy Cross
College of Wooster
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Duke University
George Washington University
Hamilton College
Haverford College (with Bryn Mawr)
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
Pennsylvania State University
Reed College
Rice University
Tufts University
University of Arizona
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Wesleyan University
Yale University</p>
<p>I'm a Classics/Archaeology major at Duke planning to go into Egyptology & Near Eastern Studies for grad school, and I absolutely LOVE our program. My advisor is relatively new (came from Princeton via Wesleyan), and an archaeology consortium with UNC Chapel Hill is being worked out. The Classics departments at Duke and UNC work <em>very</em> closely together (I'm taking a class over there this semester), which is a huge benefit, since both universities have tremendous Classics resources, such as Duke's papyrology archive or UNC's Ancient World Mapping Center. I could go on and on, but check them out yourself. :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/%5B/url%5D">http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/</a>
<a href="http://classics.unc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://classics.unc.edu/</a></p>