Overview

Explore the dynamics in past societies: innovation, adaptation, resilience and resistance in processes of long- and short-term changes. The Global Archaeology MA programme at Leiden University will invite you top step into a lively, multifaceted community and gives you access to researchers from many different backgrounds and to international networks all over the world. Follow your personal interests, and choose from a plethora of focus areas. Will you focus on the deep past of humankind? Or do you prefer to dive into the Roman world? Or would you rather study pre-Columbian America? Or do you want to specialise on Dutch archaeology? Whatever your personal interests, you will find something to your liking in this programme.

Why Global Archaeology at Leiden University?

• Study at a Faculty that has quite rightly earned a place in the top ten of archaeology research and teaching institutes in the world.
• Make use of our regional expertise on Europe, the Near East, the Mediterranean, and the Americas.
• Benefit from our large network in international research.
• Gain a solid basis for a national or international career in archaeology, heritage management, heritage policy or the museum world.

Career prospects

• field archaeologists

• researchers

• PhD candidates at Leiden University or other universities

• policy advisors at governmental institutes or NGOs

• consultants with independent or commercial companies

• museum curators

• cultural resource managers (Heritage)

• university or secondary school teachers

• journalists

• publishers

• public relations officers

• project managers

• digital education officers at museums

• digital specialists