2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Archeology

ARCHEOLOGY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Very few undergrads decide to major in archeology. Each major grants roughly 6,156 annual undergraduate degrees; 255 people earned a college degree in archeology last year, making it the USA's 333rd most popular major for undergrads. 25 of those students attended the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which has the biggest department in the USA. 31 of those degrees were earned at institutions in New York.

48 colleges in the nation award a four-year degree in archeology; accordingly, it can not be easy to find the right program for you. Undergrad degrees in archeology are 75% less commonly offered than the average major, making it the 282nd most universally available major in the nation.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last year, four in every five degrees in archeology were bachelor's degrees; 20% were advanced degrees. Archeology is the 329th most popular advanced degree in America, with 65 degrees granted. To put that in context, archeology is 98% less popular among postgrad students than the average subject.

In Total, 320 students received a bachelor's or higher in archeology last spring.

ONLINE ARCHEOLOGY DEGREES

None of the students who completed bachelor's degrees or postgrad degrees in archeology last spring completed their studies via exclusively online programs. Remote programs aren't even offered at any U.S. colleges. ### PARTIALLY ONLINE ARCHEOLOGY DEGREES

• Archeology is the 347th most popular partially online undergrad degree in the USA
• Archeology is the 299th most broadly offered partially online bachelor's degree nationally
• Last May, 32 students earned a bachelor's or higher in archeology partially online
• The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of partially online archeology majors than any other college in the United States (0.3%)
• Last spring, 65 students earned partially online advanced degrees in archeology
• 9.23% of all graduate degrees in archeology are done partially online

IN-PERSON ARCHEOLOGY DEGREES

• 229 people last spring received four-year degrees in archeology entirely in-person
• 17 schools in America grant undergrad degrees in archeology fully in-person
• 89.8% of all bachelor's degree in archeology are earned comprehensively in-person
• SUNY College at Potsdam's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of comprehensively in-person archeology majors than any other U.S. school (2.18%)
• Colleges from New York conferred the most in-person undergraduate degrees in archeology last spring (30)
• The average field is available in-person at nearly 20 schools