Classical Greek Studies programs in Ontario
15 programs across 7 campuses, with published admission ranges starting at 70%. Sorted by the range each one publishes, lowest first, so you can see where you land.
Programs
15
Campuses
7
Lowest range
70%
What this leads to
The picture for classical greek studies as of 2026-08-17, not a description of this particular program.
University professor of ancient Greek (requires PhD), or museum work, secondary school teaching, or roles in law and librarianship.
In its favour
- You're studying a subject with genuinely scarce specialists—departments keep hiring because replacements don't exist
- Museum and cultural heritage institutions value this expertise for archival and curatorial work
- Employers respect the precise textual analysis and language skills you develop
Worth knowing
- Almost all stable jobs require a PhD—that's 5+ more years of school after your degree, with no guarantee of a position
- University positions are few and often temporary contracts; recent faculty hirings at Toronto were one-year contractually limited appointments
- You need to love the subject itself, because the job market outside academia is genuinely small
How AI is changing this work
AI (ChatGPT) has deeply problematic abilities with Ancient Greek—it outputs Modern Greek words instead of Ancient Greek forms. This actually protects your work from automation for now. However, human-AI collaboration tools like Ithaca show historians' performance on restoration improved from 25% to 72% when assisted by AI, meaning your eventual work will involve AI tools as partners, not replacements. The bottleneck for AI progress is data scarcity in ancient languages, not comprehension—so the field is somewhat shielded but changing in how scholarship gets done.
Where this came from (6 sources)
- 1. Job Postings - University of Toronto, Department of Classics: Assistant Professor - CLTA - Greek Language and Literature; and Assistant Professor - CLTA - Greek and Roman Literature and Cultural History (Deadline May 28) - The Classical Association of Canada
- 2. Assistant Professor - CLTA - Greek and Roman Literature and Cultural History | Society for Classical Studies
- 3. Job Posting - University of Toronto, Department of Classics: Assistant or Associate Professor - Ancient Greek Literature (Deadline October 15th) - The Classical Association of Canada
- 4. Greek and Roman Studies – School of Graduate Studies
- 5. employment - University of Victoria
- 6. Opportunities - Department of Classics - University of Toronto
All 15 programs
- 70%TrentAncient Greek and Roman Studies and Business
- 70%WindsorGreek and Roman Studies
- 70%WindsorHistory
- 70%WindsorUndeclared Major
- 73–77%YorkLinguistics (BA - Co-op available)
- 77–87%YorkConcurrent Education: Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (BEd)
- 77–80%WaterlooHonours Arts (Regular/Co-op)
- 77–80%WaterlooHonours Arts and Business (Regular/Co-op)
- 80%TrentAncient Greek and Roman Studies (Honours Arts) – Co-op
- 80–83%WesternArts and Humanities
- 80%WindsorHistory (with Co-op)
- 80–82%CarletonHumanities
- 80–82%CarletonJournalism and Humanities
- 83–87%Queen'sArts
- 87–90%Queen'sConcurrent Education/Arts
Other subjects
- Business Studies 203
- Interdisciplinary Studies 187
- Computer Science 135
- Education Studies 117
- Environmental Studies 116
- Psychology 109
- General or Integrated Engineering 104
- Law & Criminology 101
- Media and Communication Studies 98
- Economics 95
- Biological Sciences 92
- Others in Subjects Related to Medicine 92
Ranges are what universities publish, not guaranteed cutoffs. Work out your top 6 to see which of these you actually clear.