116 Full-time Master's in Archaeology in United Kingdom

Within the Bioarchaeology - Human Osteology programme from The University of Exeter you will learn how to identify the bones of the human skeleton and undertake analysis of human skeleton remains.

Learn how to uncover the secrets of past lives through the study of human and animal skeletons. With this Archaeology Bioarchaeology MSc course offered by University of Southampton, you’ll gain expertise in human anatomy, with unlimited access to our large skeletal collection. You’ll also develop skills in faunal analysis.

Discover the cultural heritage industry on this master’s degree at the University of Southampton. With the Cultural Heritage Studies (Heritage and Museums) programme you'll gain a behind-the-scenes insight into how museums communicate the past, drawing on our links with museum and heritage partners.

Uncover the past and join an active research community conducting archaeological work across Europe, the Mediterranean, and beyond. On the Archaeology programme from University of Birmingham you'll pursue your own research project and take taught modules to develop your subject knowledge and research skills.

The Archaeology programme from University of Bradford is for researchers and practitioners, who are passionate about developing specialised skills in archaeology.

Through the Archaeology Palaeoanthropology  programme at the University of Southampton, you’ll gain expertise in the analysis of stone tools and hominin skulls to understand our evolutionary journey. You’ll work closely with experts in our Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO) and benefit from opportunities to apply your learning in real-world settings.

The MPhil Archaeology programme from University of York requires a dissertation of up to 90,000 words. If you choose to study the MPhil in Archaeology, you'll produce a dissertation of up to 60,000 words.

Explore the rich legacy of Roman Europe with this Roman Archaeology course at the University of York.

Sustainable Built Heritage from University of York, you'll  combine a critical study of the heritage sector with case studies of built environments, including visits and workshops.

This Archaeology degree at the University of Reading is a flexible degree that prepares you for a career in research, the commercial sector or heritage management.

From battlefield archaeology, to the anthropology of warfare, to archaeologies of confinement, the Conflict Archaeology and Heritage programme at the University of Glasgow will explore in depth the many and varied ways that human conflict can be interrogated via an archaeologically focused interdisciplinary approach, encompassing time periods from the prehistoric to the modern.

This Archaeology programme from Newcastle University inspires you to think about the human past from a variety of thematic and analytical perspectives.

The Material Culture and Artefact Studies programme of the University of Glasgow combines the archaeological recovery and specialist examination of an object with its presentation, management and understanding within a cultural context.

The Death and Memory programme from University of Chester is a chronologically broad course that explores the complex history of death and memory, from the treatment of the body in the earliest hunter-gatherer societies to thinking about how people dealt with the dead in twentieth-century conflict. 

Discover the cultural heritage industry on this master’s degree at the University of Southampton. Gain the knowledge and skills to specialise in an area relevant to your interests. You’ll graduate from the Cultural Heritage Studies programme with the expertise for a successful career in the sector, or for further study at PhD level.

The Archaeology programme from University of Liverpool is an ideal postgraduate degree if you want to study the major developments in human societies from the origins of settled life to the florescence of the great civilisations.

This one-year (2-semester) Archaeology (Higher Archaeological Practice) - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP) from OnCampus Southampton offers successful students guaranteed progression to the University of Southampton.

The Archaeology and Heritage programme from University of Leicester explores approaches to the archaeological heritage in general, landscape archaeology, archaeology and education, and the archaeology of standing buildings.

This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Archaeology and Heritage - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Birkbeck, University of London.

The Archaeology programme at University of Glasgow has an active postgraduate community, carrying out research on a wide range of topics from the Mesolithic to the present day and from Northern Scandinavia to the Eastern Mediterranean.