If you're seeking a degree in archeology, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #302 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Archeology Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 48 degrees in archeology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of archeology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Archeology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Archeology Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the archeology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in archeology needs to check out University of California - Los Angeles. Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #26 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UCLA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 7 archeology students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent data year.
University of Southern California is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in archeology. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 5 archeology students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of California - Santa Cruz if you want to pursue a degree in archeology. UC Santa Cruz is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Santa Cruz. This university ranks 19th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 2 archeology students who graduated with this degree at UC Santa Cruz in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Saint Mary's College of California if you want to pursue a degree in archeology. SMC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Moraga. This college ranks 30th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 2 archeology students who graduated with this degree at SMC in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).