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Explore the top 50 best universities in the world in classical history for international students! Courses in classical history include a wide range of topics, reflecting the research specialization:
- Ancient history
- Classic
- Archaeology, including Byzantine studies.
Graduates gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of:
- Classics
- Ancient history
- Methodologies for interpreting evidence
- Theoretical and analytical approaches
- Skills in evaluating, analyzing, interpreting different types of evidence
- Latin, Greek
- Evidence gathering, critical analysis of texts, images and material objects
- Writing balanced arguments.
Graduates continue to study classical history at the level of master, doctor or successfully find work as a teacher, journalist, curator of museums, galleries, are engaged in archeology, field, laboratory research.
Top 50 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Classics & Ancient History
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sapienza University of Rome | 99,5 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 93,2 |
| 3 | Cambridge University | 92,4 |
| 4 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | 91,6 |
| 5 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | 90,8 |
| 6 | Durham University | 88,5 |
| 7 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 87,4 |
| 8 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 87,0 |
| 9 | Harvard University | 86,5 |
| 10 | Peking University | 85,1 |
| 11 | King`s College London | 84,8 |
| 12 | University of St Andrews | 84,7 |
| 13 | Leiden University | 84,2 |
| 14 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 82,9 |
| 15 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 82,0 |
| 16 | Princeton University | 81,6 |
| 17 | Yale University | 81,1 |
| 18 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 81,0 |
| 19 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | 80,4 |
| 20 | Kyoto University | 79,5 |
| 21 | UCL | 79,4 |
| =22 | KU Leuven | 78,9 |
| =22 | University of Pisa | 78,9 |
| =24 | Ghent University | 78,8 |
| =24 | Sorbonne University | 78,8 |
| 26 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 78,3 |
| =27 | University of Edinburgh | 77,5 |
| =27 | University of Cologne | 77,5 |
| 29 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | 77,1 |
| 30 | National Chengchi University | 76,0 |
| =31 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 75,4 |
| =31 | Stanford University | 75,4 |
| =31 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | 75,4 |
| =34 | The University of Exeter | 75,3 |
| =34 | The University of Sydney | 75,3 |
| =36 | Nanjing University | 74,7 |
| =36 | University of Naples - Federico II | 74,7 |
| 38 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 74,4 |
| 39 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 74,2 |
| =40 | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" | 73,9 |
| =40 | University of Vienna | 73,9 |
| 42 | The University of Tokyo | 73,5 |
| 43 | Complutense University of Madrid | 73,3 |
| 44 | University of Zurich | 73,2 |
| 45 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | 72,8 |
| 46 | University of Geneva | 72,5 |
| 47 | Université PSL | 72,3 |
| 48 | Brown University | 72,2 |
| 49 | Università di Padova | 71,8 |
| 50 | Fudan University | 71,7 |
