MA/MSc Archaeology (Research)
Leiden, Netherlands
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 19,300 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non-EU/EEA students | dutch, EU/EEA, swiss and surinamese students: €2,314 per year | second dutch master’s programme: €15,400 per year
Key Summary
The research master’s programme in Archaeology is the most diverse in the Netherlands. Benefit from our extensive experience and international reputation in archaeological research, and lay the best foundation for a career in academia.
Why Archaeology (research) at Leiden University?
- Study at a Faculty that has quite rightly earned a place in the top ten archaeology research and teaching institutes in the world.
- Explore fascinating regional and thematic specialisation possibilities. The programme stimulates extra-talented and motivated students by exposing them to cutting-edge research and making them part of it;
- Gain all the 21st-century professional and transferable skills you need, and find your place in the wide world of archaeological careers;
- Benefit from our research facilities and labs, field schools and excavation projects, experimental archaeology projects and the Dutch national research schools (ARCHON, OIKOS). The programme offers excellent opportunities for every prospective researcher.
As a research master's student, you will follow a general theoretical course each year, and deepen your knowledge of chosen subjects through the modular advanced courses and in the annual research seminars, finally resulting in the thesis, thus embodying our concept of research-driven education. Students gain solid research skills while studying the methodological, theoretical and academic-philosophical aspects of the research focus of choice.
First-year
- 5 ec: Advanced Archaeological Theory / Advanced Scientific Methodology
- 5 ec: Teaching assistance 1
- 5 ec: Conferences and workshops (ARCHON)
- 15 ec: Research and thesis
- 5 ec: Advanced Themes in Archaeology
- 10 ec: RMA research seminar
- 10 ec: Modular course (from MA)
- 5 ec: Elective
Second year
- 5 ec: Epistemology of archaeology
- 5 ec: Teaching assistance 2
- 5 ec: Conferences and workshops (ARCHON)
- 20 ec: Research and thesis
- 10 ec: RMA research seminar
- 10 ec: Modular course (from MA)
- 5 ec: Elective
Leiden University offers a wide range of scholarships for students from specific regions of the world, or for specific programmes. Leiden University also offers the Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS), a program specifically designed for non-EU/EEA students enrolling in a master’s program.
Our graduates find employment as:
- 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