MA Program in Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology   

*Single courses are also available

Joint Program of New Bulgarian University and Balkan Heritage Foundation

If a field-school experience left you wanting to learn more about Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology, you should check out our graduate program.  The program includes both online and practical lab courses in order to take advantage of both worlds:

• the flexibility of online teaching will allow you to live and work in your home country. And, it permits us to enrich our faculty with specialists from around the world and offer a large and diverse choice of MA-thesis supervisors;
• the hands-on lab classes and two months of fieldwork in archaeology or conservation assure the improvement of practical skills and preparation for a career path in archaeology. You will learn how to draw, photograph and analyze lithic tools, ceramics and metal artifacts. Furthermore, you will be trained in Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Geographic Information Systems in archaeology.

Successful completion of the MA program offers the following qualifications:

• Archaeologist (CRM archaeologist, researcher or teaching assistant)
• Museum curator
• Cultural heritage manager
• CRM manager
• CRM technician

Requirements

The English speaking program is open to anyone who possesses an academic bachelor degree. If this degree is in a field not related to archaeology, writing samples from a term paper, thesis or an essay will be required, as will some additional courses during the program.   

Duration

• MA degree – 4 semesters ( = 2 years) with two obligatory fieldwork campaigns, one month each, covered by the program fees.
• PhD degree – 6 semesters (= 3 years) with field and applied work as appropriate to the PhD topic.   
• single courses run for a semester (Oct-Jan or Mar-Jun)

Language requirements

Students from non-English undergraduate programs must provide proof of fluency in written and spoken English.   

Terms & Deadlines

The graduate program may be started in October      

Enrollment deadlines      

• May - to enroll for the fall semester        
• for single course enrollment, please contact BHFS Admissions

For further information please check:   

https://bema-archaeologyprogram.nbu.bg/en

  Program contents         

*Any of the listed classes can be taken individually or as part of the full program