Archaeology BA

Durham University · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 4179course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,500

median, based on 80 graduates · half earned £19,000–£31,500 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Durham course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 100% with A levels. 10% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 30 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£25,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£19k
Median£26k
Upper quarter£32k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 80 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 13, 14, 24, 23

Half of graduates earned between £19,000 and £31,500. Five years on, the median is £29,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 55% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%25
In work or study, 15 months on35% studying85%15
Professional or managerial job55%20
Pay 15 months on, median£25,00020
Pay 3 years on, median£25,50080
Pay 5 years on, median£29,00085
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Durham fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

92%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 65% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 64% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 392%
Question 492%
Question 592%
Question 6100%
Question 7100%
Question 885%
Question 9100%
Question 10100%
Question 11100%
Question 12100%
Question 1392%
Question 1485%
Question 15100%
Question 16100%
Question 1792%
Question 18100%
Question 1992%
Question 20100%
Question 2192%
Question 2292%
Question 2392%
Question 2469%
Question 2564%
Question 2692%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from Durham University’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. Durham University is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.