Best Universities for Classics and Ancient History in Europe
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Below is a list of best universities in Europe ranked based on their research performance in Classics and Ancient History. A graph of 3.13M citations received by 332K academic papers made by 715 universities in Europe was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.
1. University of Oxford
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1096
2. University of Cambridge
- Acceptance Rate
- 21%
- Founded
- 1209
3. University College London
- Enrollment
- 42,000
- Founded
- 1826
5. University of Edinburgh
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Founded
- 1583
9. London School of Economics and Political Science
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 9,218
- Founded
- 1895
10. University of Bristol
- Acceptance Rate
- 63%
- Enrollment
- 27,513
- Founded
- 1909
11. Durham University
- Enrollment
- 19,520
- Founded
- 1832
12. University of Warwick
- Enrollment
- 27,278
- Founded
- 1965
14. University of London
- Enrollment
- 50,000
- Founded
- 1836
15. University of Liverpool
- Enrollment
- 28,693
- Founded
- 1881
16. University of St Andrews
- Enrollment
- 10,425
- Founded
- 1413
21. University of Exeter
- Acceptance Rate
- 73%
- Founded
- 1955
22. University of Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 19%
- Enrollment
- 25,732
23. Leiden University
- Acceptance Rate
- 30%
- Enrollment
- 27,713
- Founded
- 1575
24. University of Southampton
- Enrollment
- 21,335
- Founded
- 1952
25. University of York
- Acceptance Rate
- 20%
- Founded
- 1963
26. University of Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Enrollment
- 41,000
- Founded
- 1632
28. University of Leicester
- Enrollment
- 24,409
- Male:Female
- 46:54
- Founded
- 1957
29. University of Sussex
- Enrollment
- 17,319
- Male:Female
- 44:56
- Founded
- 1961
31. Imperial College London
- Enrollment
- 17,565
- Founded
- 1907
41. University of East Anglia
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1963
42. Utrecht University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1636
43. SOAS, University of London
- Acceptance Rate
- 44%
- Enrollment
- 6,295
- Founded
- 1916
45. University of Groningen
- Acceptance Rate
- 50%
- Enrollment
- 34,000
- Founded
- 1614
59. Queen Mary University of London
- Acceptance Rate
- 18%
- Founded
- 1989
65. Free University Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Founded
- 1880
66. Queen's University Belfast
- Acceptance Rate
- 31%
- Founded
- 1849
67. Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 53%
- Founded
- 1913
76. Lancaster University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1964
94. Tilburg University
- Acceptance Rate
- 57%
- Enrollment
- 17,378
- Founded
- 1927
97. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 23,420
100. University of Bradford
- Acceptance Rate
- 63%
- Founded
- 1966