I am Gus, that was Latin for "hi everybody!" Because this is the top 6 classics programs in the world.
Just as a disclaimer before we get started, these are the top six programs according to the QS rankings, these are by no means the definitive,
or only way of ranking classics programs in the world but QS does a pretty good job of ranking schools because they use different factors such as the H index, employer reputation, academic productivity, so this is just one way that we like to use to measure these schools.
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Okay, so let's get started with the number six school on our list for classics, It is Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Princeton's classics department takes pride in educating students about how the ancient world and ancient cultures shaped our modern world, and continue to shape our modern world.
Students have the opportunity to study a variety of tracks, including studying the Romans, the Greeks, and other ancient cultures. At the graduate level Princeton University offers a wide variety of opportunities for students who are looking to study the classics.
You can take advantage of resources in Philadelphia, or in New York because those have amazing scholarship communities as well as libraries. However, it's worth noting that you need to be fluent in at least one other language besides English to study at the graduate level of classics at Princeton.
Number five on our list brings us to Cambridge, Massachusetts with Harvard University.
Harvard's classic department offers a wide variety of ways for students to get involved in the classics, including at the undergraduate level, where students can concentrate in the classics, studying either the Greeks or the Romans, or another ancient culture.
In addition, students at Harvard have an opportunity to get a citation in an ancient language such as Greek or Latin.
The Harvard classics department, like Princeton's, notes that most of their students go on to study something besides the classics at the post-grad level including law or medicine, government, really anything. It's a way of thinking rather than just memorizing ancient culture.
Number four on our list is Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, or LMU Munich.
The institute of ancient history at LMU Munich is one of the largest centers of teaching and research of ancient history in Germany and worldwide. LMU Munich takes ancient history very literally and seriously.
They begin their studies at the first written words ever discovered in Egypt and Southern Iraq.
LMU Munich is also unique in that they are not really so focused anymore on what's considered the traditional classics like events of ancient history, or the grand speeches of people but rather kind of what was happening with the rest of people during that time.
So, kind of more studying the social and economic forces at play as well as what was it like to be a thinker back then? Just a normal person, how do they think about life?
Number three on our list brings us to the United Kingdom with Cambridge University.
Cambridge is, of course, one of the world's oldest universities, and it makes sense that they would have a really excellent classics department.
Students at Cambridge can study classics in a three year program if they already have a proficiency in Latin and a four year program if they do not.
Part of the thing that makes Cambridge such an amazing place to study the classics is first, a world renowned set of specialists and professors, as well as access to unique resources such as the faculty's Museum of Classical Archeology, and the Fitzwilliam Museum's department of antiques.
Cambridge University's classics department also does a great job of preparing its students for the job market after they graduate.
The Guardian ranked Cambridge number one in the country for their ability to get classics students jobs after they graduate.
Number two on our list brings us to Cambridge's rival, Oxford University, also in the United Kingdom.
Classics at Oxford take on a very interdisciplinary flavor, students are not really expected to just focus on the classics, but rather to tie it to other areas of inquiry and this also is reflected in the curriculum offered at Oxford.
Students can definitely study things like classical history and classical languages, but also things like performance in the ancient world, and other areas that kind of receive less attention from other schools.
There are specific research centers at Oxford devoted to Greek and Roman drama, ancient documents, classical art, and visintine research. So that's sounding pretty "bonum" to me.
And number one on our list of schools to study the classics at is Sapienza University of Rome.
It's probably not a surprise that the best place to study the classics in the world is in Rome, probably the capitol, for most people, of classical study.
Sapienza offers 25 different areas of study within the classics at their university and they're not just focused on ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
You can study ancient Africa, the ancient far and near East there, as well as other regions and other topics.
In addition, you have unprecedented access to a ton of on the ground ancient stuff, ruins, museums, probably some ancient people still around, you know, no, it's not true. (beep) So those were the top six schools to study the classics at in the world.
