The School of Archaeology provides outstanding opportunities for graduate study in Archaeology. With over 150 students, drawn from across the world, there is a thriving graduate community. Research is undertaken in many different areas of archaeology ranging from the Palaeolithic to the Mediaeval periods across most of the world's inhabited continents.

Graduate programs are based around the three main centres of archaeological research in Oxford:

• Institute of Archaeology
• Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
• Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

The three centres work together to provide support and facilities for graduate students. One of the great strengths of Oxford archaeology is the opportunity for cross-disciplinary research, making use of the expertise in more than one centre.

Oxford also has outstanding resources for archaeological research. The Sackler Library's collection of archaeological journals and books is one of the best in the world, and the Bodleian library is a copyright library holding copies of every book published in Britain, together with a large collection of foreign publications. The Ashmolean Museum holds internationally important collections particularly relevant to classical studies and the archaeology of the Near and Far east. The Pitt Rivers Museum also has one of the world's great anthropological and archaeological collections and is equally famous for its celebrated displays and its leading role in contemporary research, with a newly-built research centre. It also houses the Balfour Library (with material on the Palaeolithic, Africa, Americas and Australasia). On-line resources provide easy access to journals and other publications.

Graduate students studying in Oxford attend special lectures, classes and tutorials run specifically for their courses. They also have the opportunity to attend lectures from any other courses at the University. There are specialist skills seminars in Archaeology, and within the University more generally there exist excellent opportunities for foreign language learning, computer skills development etc.. Numerous seminar series, which graduate students frequently contribute to and organise, explore cutting-edge topics on a weekly basis.

Graduate Archaeology at Oxford is run by the graduate students and provides skills seminars, a mentoring programme, social events and a very successful conference series. This provides many opportunities for students to develop their skills, present their research and develop ideas for the next stage of their careers.