<p>I want to major in anthropology or archeology.
What school would be good to major in this study?</p>
<p>I think Berkeley is good, and maybe Princeton… any others???</p>
<p>Michigan-Ann Arbor and Chicago are the top 2. Cal, Harvard, Penn and Arizona are also excellent.</p>
<p>U of Penn or Penn state?</p>
<p>Penn is always used to refer to UPenn.</p>
<p>Yale has a strong Archaeology department. It’s one of the few colleges where you can actually earn a degree in Archaeology. At Harvard and many others, you earn a degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology.<br>
Look at the areas of concentration within the department before you choose. Some schools are stronger in Latin America and some are stronger in Europe or Asia. Arizona, for example, is great for North American and South American Archaeology, but maybe not so great if your interest is Greece. And some schools have anthro but very little in the way of archaeology at all, and just have social and cultural anthropology. They vary a lot, but you can get a lot of info by researching their websites and looking at the faculty and what they study.</p>
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Slightly incorrect. Yale has an archaeology program, which is not the same thing. As far as I know, Boston University is the only American university to have a separate department. The distinction is meaningless, however, as the difference between concentrations and departments does not matter when comparing strength in archaeology. Neither Yale nor Boston U is an archaeological powerhouse, though both are perfectly respectable for undergraduate studies.</p>
<p>As was already said, the big four for archaeology are Arizona, Berkeley, Michigan, and Penn. Lately one could argue in favor of UCLA or Texas instead of Michigan, but Michigan has a longer tradition in archaeology.</p>
<p>The following lists are far from complete but should give you a place to start. It is a bit difficult to give suggestions without knowing your grades and specific interests, but the lists include universities with varying foci and degrees of selectivity.</p>
<p>Publics
Arizona
ASU
Cincinnati
Florida
FSU
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota-Twin Cities
Missouri-Columbia
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
SIUC
SUNY Albany
SUNY Stony Brook
Texas A&M (tops for underwater archaeology)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSB
UIUC
UNC Chapel Hill
UT Austin
Washington
William & Mary
Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin-Milwaukee</p>
<p>Privates
Boston U
Brown
Chicago
Cornell
Harvard
Johns Hopkins (old world only)
NYU (primarily old world)
Princeton (limited offerings)
Washington U
Yale</p>
<p>Small colleges
Bryn Mawr
Colgate
Dickinson
Franklin & Marshall
Haverford
Lycoming
Oberlin
Wesleyan</p>
<p>^ Although you mentioned it as one of the “big four,” you left Penn off of your list of privates. :)</p>