Is an archaeology degree worth it?

Pursuing a graduate degree in archaeology will open the door to a career as a professional archaeologist. As to your perspectives for a job, it's very difficult to answer. It depends very much on what you want to achieve, and in which country you live. read more

IMO, Anthropology (the Bachelor's degree most archaeologists in the U.S. get) is totally worth it. Anthropology offers broad training that is useful for a wide variety of jobs; an undergrad specialization in archaeology is useful for only one job, that of an archaeological field technician. read more

The Personal Value of an Archaeology Degree Currently, archaeologists are poorly rewarded for their work. A widely publicised set of figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education 2002-2003 survey, published in Halpin (2005), showed archaeology graduates as being extremely badly paid, the least well paid of 61 subject areas compared in that study. read more