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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History MPhil/PhD

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History MPhil/PhD

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Full time | Bloomsbury (Central London) Campus | 4 years | APR-26

Study mode

Full time

Duration

4 years

Start date

APR-26

Key information
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Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Archaeology Of Specific Periods / Ages Classical History

Course Summary

An MPhil/PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck.A research degree offers you the opportunity to acquire a highly advanced set of conceptual skills developed in the pursuit of new knowledge, which can be applied within or beyond an academic or scholarly context. Research training in any academic discipline helps to channel creativity into critical innovatory reasoning. The legitimate authority of original, independent research depends upon persuasive analytical arguments supported by critically evaluated evidence.

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For this course (per year)

£13,500

Entry requirements

Confirmed (or predicted) Merit or above at MA level in ancient history, archaeology, classical studies, classics, history or a related discipline, with a distinction in the dissertation.

University information

Birkbeck, University of London is located in Bloomsbury, in the very centre of the UK’s cosmopolitan capital city, and students at the university are ideally placed to experience everything that London has to offer. It offers a portfolio of over 250 taught and research postgraduate programmes spanning a range of subject areas, including the humanities and social sciences, business, law, and science. Students at the university are members...more

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