Archaeology with a Placement Year

About this course

Archaeology is the study of the human past through its material remains, encompassing everything from prehistoric stone tools and Bronze Age burials to Roman cities and medieval landscapes. It combines humanistic inquiry with scientific methods, using techniques from geology, biology, chemistry, and physics alongside historical and anthropological thinking to recover and interpret evidence about how people lived, how they organised their societies, what they made and traded, and how they understood the world around them. It is a discipline that connects the very distant past to the present, showing how the choices and conditions of earlier societies have shaped the world we inhabit. At University College London, this programme is offered as Archaeology with a Placement Year, extending the degree to four years of full-time study. The placement year provides hands-on professional experien

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 67% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

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• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →

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