Study Program in Archaeology, University of Tromsø

Welcome to the Archaeology Study Program Page


The Institute offers a three-year Bachelor degree and a two-year Master degree. Applications to begin these programs in Fall 2005 must be submitted by April 15, 2005.

General information about degree programs can be found on the Social Science Faculty pages and the main University pages:


Social Science Faculty

University Study Department


Specific information on archaeology study programs can be found on the left margin by clicking: Programmes, Other Studies and Courses.

Bachelor Degree

A three-year study that provides qualification for work within cultural heritage management, museum work and cultural life in general, and which constitutes the basis for further study at the Master level.

The program involves obligatory courses in Fennoscandinavian prehistory and historical archaeology, theory and method, as well as optional courses on diverse themes.

We also offer an interdisciplinary program in cultural heritage management in cooperation with the Institute for Art History and the Institute for Planning and Local Society Research.

More detailed information can be found here.


Master Degree

A two-year program that provides qualification for work within cultural heritage management, museum work, and cultural life in general, and which constitutes the basis for further study at the Doctoral level.

The Master degree is organized in two programs: general archaeology and applied archaeology. Both programs involve obligatory thesis-writing and literature seminars, as well as several optional courses.

More detailed information can be found here.

Doktoral Degree

A three or four-year researcher education that provides qualification for independent research and academic work or cultural heritage management.

Archaelogical Study Abroad

The Institute offers an exchange study program with the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Umeå, in northern Sweden. Click here for more on the Umeå progam.

We also have cooperative arrangements with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain, and Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland in Nuuk.

Distanse Studies.

In Fall 2005 we begin a new Distance Study in archaeology (beginner level). This is a 30 credit program that is carried out over a year (2005/2006). The new program is based on courses from the Bachelor core program.