Department of Archaeology - Durham University

Durham is one of the leading centres for archaeology in the UK. We were ranked second in our subject in the Times Good University Guide 2011 and fourth in the 2012 Complete University Guide. This is testimony to the Department's success in all aspects of the university experience. Our research is internationally significant and is currently judged best in the UK for Archaeology (following the UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise of 2008). We also offer high quality teaching, a positive student experience, and crucially, employability.

Our courses provide not just an excellent vocational foundation for those considering archaeology as a future career, but are also some of the best general degrees available, teaching a wide range of transferable skills which are in high demand by employers such as critical thinking, group working and project management. Their breadth, ranging across disciplines from social theory and epigraphy to statistics and scientific methods, provides an excellent springboard for a wide range of future careers.

Durham offers a robust and wide-ranging archaeology degree, with broad geographical and chronological coverage, laboratory work and field techniques. Unlike some other providers, the Department has a large number of permanent full-time staff undertaking teaching, research and fieldwork.

If you want to find out more about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research degrees, or our research activities, please browse our website or contact us.