Placements
Increase your employability with a Placement Year
A Placement Year is an opportunity for you to spend a year gaining valuable work experience during your time at University.
Unique opportunities for placements
Degree-with-Placement programmes in Archaeology at Durham offer the chance to build a 9-12 month paid professional placement into your degree. Placements can be arranged in varied employment sectors, but as a Department, we offer a unique chance annually for up to six students to work with our own commercial archaeology company. These placements provide a paid introduction to the commercial archaeology sector combined with training in a variety of professional skills.
Which degree programmes have a Placement Year?
Students in the following degree programmes in 2020/21 can apply for a Placement Year:
- BA Archaeology with Placement Year (F409)
- BSc Archaeology with Placement Year (F410)
- BA Archaeology of the Historic World with Placement Year (F407)
- BA Anthropology and Archaeology with Placement Year (LF02)
- BA Archaeology and Ancient Civilisations with Placement Year (V402)
It is also usually possible to transfer to the placement year variant of our programmes from the equivalent programme without placement year.
Placements at Durham University
Work experience at Durham University
Placement information
During your placement you will remain a student at Durham University but with reduced tuition fees (20% of what you'd usually pay).