I have an aspiring Egyptologist at home, preparing to start a career in the subject. It's a good place to be. You can't do better if you're going into Egyptology. I'm really interested in becoming one. I really am interested in searching for the Inca civilization and Cleopatra.
Some people go into it studying anthropology.
Archaeology at universities in the United States is a subset of anthropology, because you're studying cultures in the past rather than contemporary societies. Another way is to study ancient language and history. A number of people go into it through Near Eastern studies in my area. Near Eastern studies include Egyptology, Assyriology, and the archaeology of Syria and Palestine.