Top Universities for Classics & Ancient History in 2018

This year, the QS World University Rankings by Subject have been expanded to include two new subjects, one of which is classics & ancient history.

50 universities from around the world feature in this first-ever classics ranking, with 16 different countries represented. Sapienza - Università di Roma has the honor of being the best university in the world for classics, and the rest of the top 10 can be seen below along with a regional breakdown.

Top universities for classics & ancient history in the United States and Canada

Although only two American universities manage to break into the top 10, there are nine more included in this year’s ranking. Cornell University are just one place below Princeton in 11^th, with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) (15^th), Yale University (17^th) and University of Chicago (20^th) all in the top 20.

Canada has just one institution in this year’s ranking, the University of Toronto, which is ranked 33^rd.

Top universities for classics & ancient history in Europe

As you can see above, most of the top universities for classics & ancient history hail from Europe and this is replicated further down the table. 36 of the 50 universities included this year are European, with the majority coming from Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom (eight institutions per country).

Outside of the top 10, the next best universities in the UK are the University of St Andrews (ranked 14^th), UCL (University College London) (18^th) and King’s College London (KCL) (21^st).

In Italy, the next top universities after Sapienza are Università di Pisa (12^th) and Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata (13th).

Half of Germany’s featured universities are in the top 20, with three in the top 10 above. The next best-ranked universities are Universität Freiburg in 19^th, and Freie Universität Berlin in 22^nd.

Other top European universities are Greece’s Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 16^th and Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 24^th. Outside the top half of the ranking, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Denmark and Spain are all represented.

Top universities for classics & ancient history elsewhere in the world

Only two universities in this year’s classics & ancient history ranking are from outside Europe, the US and Canada. The first of these is Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) which is ranked 39^th and is the sole Latin American university included.

The final institution is the only Asian university in this year’s ranking. Japan’s Kyushu University is ranked joint 46^th alongside Spain’s Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).