81 Full-time PhD programmes in Archaeology

The Archaeology and History of Art programme at Koc University offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of archaeology, the history of art and visual culture, late antique and Byzantine studies, cultural heritage management, museum studies, and maritime archaeology. 

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester offers this PhD degree in Bioarchaeology.

In the Ph.D. program, students at Southern Methodist University concentrate either in Cultural Anthropology or in Archaeology. 

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington offers a phd degree in Archaeology. Join us! 

The Archaeological Anthropology program at New York University seeks both to understand the human past—including cultural origins and evolution, human adaptations, inequality, agriculture, and urban life—and to link this past to the world that we inhabit today.

The Archaeology programme offered by Durham University supports innovative investigation across past societies, material evidence, and heritage practice.

The Classical Archaeology and Ancient History programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London examines societies, cultures, identities, and transformations across the Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and Italian worlds, advancing understanding of antiquity through specialised historical and archaeological scholarship.

A PhD in Egyptology at Swansea University enables you to undertake a substantial research project led by your own passions and interests.

Enjoy the flexibility to follow your own research interests, supported by our expert staff. You may also choose to study for either a Archaeology PhD or MPhil qualification at University of Nottingham. 

The PhD in Archaeology is offered by the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

The emphasis in the Graduate Program in Anthropology - Archaeology at University of Pennsylvania is on training candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

A doctoral degree in Archaeology at the University of South Africa (UNISA) will require you to undertake research at the most advanced academic levels culminating in the submission, assessment and acceptance of a thesis.

At the Doctoral level, the Department at Simon Fraser University offers a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Archaeology. 

This Archaeology programme at the University of Huddersfield puts you at the centre of work that explores major historical and contemporary issues. 

The History, Archeology and Classical Studies programme from Aarhus University has its basis in the disciplines of Prehistoric, Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Classical Studies (Classical Archaeology and Classical Philology), and History. It thereby spans the study of the human past in its entirety, albeit with various methodological approaches.

The graduate curriculum in the Art and Archaeology program at Princeton University is one of the oldest in the country, and for many decades the department has played a leading role in training teachers, scholars, and curators in this area. At Princeton, graduate work in this discipline has certain special advantages.

The DPhil in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford provides you with the opportunity to pursue substantial independent research from within a wide range of periods and subjects, ranging from the prehistoric Aegean through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods to Byzantium.

The Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program (AP) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) integrates archaeological faculty throughout the university for the training of graduate students who wish to pursue interdisciplinary research.

Join our large, thriving PhD community at the University of Sheffield investigating topics in a wide variety of archaeological specialisms: Landscape, Funerary and Mediterranean Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Bioarchaeology and Archaeomaterials.

This Archaeology (Distance Learning) programme at the University of Huddersfield puts you at the centre of work that explores major historical and contemporary issues.