The School researches and teaches all the main branches of archaeology and we are one of the largest graduate schools in the country.  We encourage students to engage in a wide range of research and yet we maintain an active one-to-one community.

The three main centres of archaeology – the Institute of Archaeology, the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and the Classics Centre – have a series of formal and informal means for students and staff to meet. In addition to teaching through large and small groups, these include a thriving seminar culture and informal meetings over coffee or in the pub. Colleges allow people to get to know each other both intellectually and socially and the process of fieldwork allows for people at all stages to participate in joint work in a variety of conditions.

The School carries out research in all the inhabited continents and we actively encourage fieldwork.  Many of our students are from the areas we are researching and the student body is both international and diverse in its background and interests.  Our graduates have established careers in archaeological departments throughout the world as well as in museums, heritage management organisations and commercial archaeology.