10 PhD programmes in Ancient History in North America

Brown University is one of the premier institutions for the study of Egyptology and Assyriology and the history of ancient science. 

The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania trains students for careers in the art and archaeology of Classical and Near Eastern Civilizations.

The University of Oklahoma helped pioneer the professional study of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in American universities.

The Ancient Mediterranean Studies program offered by University of Missouri - Columbia offers graduate work in three main areas.

The Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology program at University of California, Berkeley combines an open curriculum with rigorous examinations to produce innovative scholars fully trained in the technical skills necessary to become distinguished researchers and effective teachers.

Encompassing the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to East Asia, from the Neolithic to the early Medieval period, ISAW is focused on creating a new generation of scholars whose work crosses over the disciplinary boundaries of traditional departments. We offer a Ancient World degree at the New York University. 

The goal of the History of Science program at Princeton University is to enhance our students' enthusiasm for the subject while also training them for the joint professional responsibilities of teaching and research. 

Ancient History is a discipline that draws on literary, documentary, visual, archaeological, and environmental evidence, and employs a range of methodologies in combining these evidentiary categories in order to answer specific questions about the structures, processes, and thought-worlds of ancient societies. This degree is offered at the University of Pennsylvania.

Earn a terminal degree that will give you the necessary experience and credentials to practice archaeology in the field or teach at the highest levels of academia through Lipscomb University’s Ph.D. program in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

The History - European History PhD degree from Mississippi State University offers a primary emphasis in either United States or European History. A student may choose a minor field of study outside the History Department with concurrence of their advisor.