When I was at Brown had degree in Egyptology, are Ivy Leagues only institutions have majors in Egyptology?

Question

When I was at Brown had degree in Egyptology, are Ivy Leagues only institutions have majors in Egyptology?

Answer 1

brown is the only university in the u.s. with an exclusive egyptology department. other universities combine egyptology studies with the near eastern studies programs. for the most part, those programs are only available at the higher echelon of universities. penn, chicago, ucla, harvard, yale, brown, john hopkins. assyriology is the same way.

Answer 2

Have no new info; except to say that as an undergrad; most Archaeology programs don't want you to specialize that much.  That is what MA and Ph.D programs are for.

Answer 3

My cousin is an Egyptologist and she studied at Macquarrie Uni in Sydney, Australia.

Now she is doing a post graduate year with a archaeological crew in Luxor,Egypt.

Answer 4

Egyptology departments in the US and broader North America are not limited to the Ivy League, though a number of Ivy League institutions do happen to have Egyptology departments.

Some of the more well-known universities in the US and North America that have Egyptology programs (specifically graduate programs) include:

The University of Chicago

University of Pennsylvania

UCLA

UC Berkeley

University of Memphis (MA only)

Penn State (sort of, through their History Department, if memory serves.  Dr. Donald Redford, one of the foremost scholars of the field is there)

University of Toronto

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts

Johns Hopkins

Brown, as you mentioned.  The department has been reorganized and is now part of a broader Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies Department, somewhat similar to the Oriental Institute/Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

A fairly comprehensive worldwide list is available at:

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/inst.h...