QS World Ranking in Archaeology
While not intended to be exhaustive, listed here are a number of universities recognized
for their quality graduate programs in Egyptology.
Brown University
Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Rhode Island promotes the investigation, understanding, and enjoyment of the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East.(source:website)Durham University
Durham is rated as one of the best departments for Near Eastern-Iran-Indian Archæology in Britain (source: website)Freie Universität Berlin
Ancient Studies at Freie Universität consists of a close association between the disciplines of Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, and the Languages and Cultures of South Asia.(source:website)Leiden University
Develop your expertise in Ancient Egypt with a leading master’s programme. Join the MA Classics and Ancient Civilisations specialisation in Egyptology and acquire a broad and extensive understanding of the linguistic and cultural history of Egypt from the Pharaonic times to Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egypt.(source:website)UCL University (College London)
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is the largest and one of the most highly regarded centres for archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in Britain. It is one of the very few places in the world actively pursuing research on a truly global scale in the archaeological sciences, heritage studies and world archaeology. (source:website)University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies Department, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest and most distinguished such departments in the country. The Department offers both general instruction and specialized training in Archaeology, Art History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Iranian Studies, Judaic and Islamic Studies, Comparative Semitics, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish.(source:website)University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures strives to provide its students with a comprehensive education in a field that is extremely rich in culture and history. Encompassing the study of early civilizations that inhabited the region that roughly corresponds to the modern Middle East, the field of Ancient Near East and Egyptology is one that is interdisciplinary and includes the study of the art and archaeology, history, language, literature, and religion relevant to that region. (source:website)University of Cambridge
The Division of Archaeology offers papers and modules in Egyptian Language and Egyptian Archaeology at both an Undergraduate and Graduate level.(source:website)University of Chicago
Egyptology is at the heart of the Department of NELC, with our founder J. H. Breasted. The University of Chicago is the first home of the discipline in the Western hemisphere. (source:website)University of Michigan
The Egyptology program in NES is for students at all levels.University of Oxford
The ancient civilizations of Egypt and of the Near East – Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia – are foundations of the modern world. Understanding these unique cultures presents a rewarding intellectual challenge. Deciphering original sources in the ancient languages and writing systems is integrated with the study of archaeological and artistic materials.(source:website)University of Pennsylvania
NELC's programs focus on the civilizations of Mesopotamia/Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Syria, Arabia, Anatolia/Turkey and Persia/Iran. We teach Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and other languages of the region, from ancient through modern. (source:website)University of Toronto
Department of Near and Middle Eastern CivilizationsUniversity of Memphis, Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, a component of the Department of Art of The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee. It is dedicated to the study of the art and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education.(source:website)Yale University
The graduate and undergraduate programs of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations emphasize reflective scholarship based on sound knowledge of the languages, civilizations, and material culture of the Near East. The Department’s main faculty strengths today are in the areas of Arabic, Graeco-Arabic, and Islamic studies; Assyriology, including Sumerian and Akkadian; and Egyptology.(source:website)
