2018年QS世界大学排名已正式发布，QS世界大学排名被视为目前世界最具影响力的排名之一，本次排名涵盖46个不同学术领域的11000余个位次，是目前为止最大规模也是最复杂的大学排名。其专业排名自2011年以来每年发布，排名主要依据学术声誉、雇主声誉和科研影响力三方面。不同学科排名方法不同，反映出不同的关注重点和数据可用性。
| 2018年QS世界大学排名——考古学 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | University College London |
| 4 | Harvard University |
| 5 | Durham University |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 7 | Stanford University |
| 8 | Leiden University |
| 9 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 10 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 11 | The University of Auckland |
| 12 | University of York |
| 13 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 14 | The Australian National University |
| 15 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 17 | Aarhus University |
| 18 | University of Chicago |
| 19 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 20 | Columbia University |
| 21 | University of Copenhagen |
| 21 | University of Michigan |
| 23 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 24 | The University of Arizona |
| 25 | The University of Sheffield |
| 25 | Yale University |
| 27 | University of Bordeaux |
| 28 | University of Otago |
| 29 | University of Southampton |
| 30 | The University of Sydney |
| 31 | University of Reading |
| 32 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 33 | University of Barcelona |
| 34 | Boston University |
| 34 | University of Toronto |
| 36 | The University of Tokyo |
| 37 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg |
| 38 | University of Witwatersrand |
| 39 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 40 | Boston University |
| 41 | University of Washington |
| 42 | Simon Fraser University |
| 43 | University of Cologne |
| 43 | Ghent University |
| 45 | University of Vienna |
| 45 | University of Florida |
| 47 | University of Alberta |
| 48 | Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna |
| 48 | University of British Columbia |
| 48 | University of British Groningen |
