University of Durham
Historical Archaeology
Typical offer rate
92–100%
high entry
Grad employment
90%
15 months after
In professional roles
55%
Median grad salary
£25,000
15 months after
University of Durham's Historical Archaeology degree focuses on the period from the medieval through to the recent past, drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence to reconstruct how people lived in the centuries before industrialisation and after. The programme bridges the humanities and the sciences in its approach to the physical record. Offers go to most who meet the grades.
How hard is it to get in?
The typical applicant to Historical Archaeology at University of Durham has a 92–100% chance of an offer, high by UK standards. That baseline is course-typical. Your own chance depends on your grades, subjects and the rest of your profile.
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Estimate my chancesAbout University of Durham
Durham is a collegiate Russell Group university in the north-east, one of England's oldest, its students organised into colleges around the Norman cathedral and castle.
Full details and how to apply are on the university's official course page: University of Durham · Historical Archaeology
Offer rate and graduate-outcome figures are course-typical baselines derived from UK admissions and HESA data; they are estimates, not guarantees. Your personalised offer likelihood is calculated in the Unimetrica app.