What colleges offer the best archaeology programs?

it matters what u r best at

Very few programs offer exotic languages like the ones you're looking for. The University of Pennsylvania is one of them, other large universities such as Michigan might. Your undergraduate institution won't really matter, as most don't offer archaeology as its own discipline (although some do).

Honestly, the College of Charleston in South Carolina has a strong arabic program and fairly decent archaeology program. It is only offered as a minor, but the college offers majors in history, historic preservation, anthropology, geology, etc that work well in conjunction with the minor. Dr. Newhard, the head of the archaeology program takes students to Turkey every summer for a field school outside of Ankara. The college's anthropology program is closely ties to the Charleston museum, the oldest museum in the country and an organization with close ties to the British museum. Other than preliminary networking, undergrad schools are not really important in the long run. Graduate work is what counts in archaeology. EDIT: In the US, archaeology is a sub-field of anthropology. You will be hard-pressed to find a program that deals exclusively with archaeology and not at all with anthropology.