Archeology at University of Southern California

What traits are you looking for in a archeology school? To help you decide if University of Southern California is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's archeology program.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 5 archeology majors received their bachelor's degree from USC.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Archeology section at the bottom of this page.

USC Archeology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Archeology

USC Archeology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the archeology progam at USC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The archeology major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Archeology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	11
Most Popular Archeology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15

Archeology Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the archeology majors at University of Southern California.

USC Archeology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 archeology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from USC, about 20% were men and 80% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 59% more racial-ethnic minorities in its archeology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor's in archeology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

USC also has a doctoral program available in archeology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Anthropology
• General Social Sciences
• Geography & Cartography
• Sociology
• Urban Studies

Careers That Archeology Grads May Go Into

A degree in archeology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Anthropologists and Archeologists	1,420	$67,030
Anthropology and Archeology Professors	550	$115,610

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.