2024 Best History Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
74Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
5,575History Degrees Awarded
$31,081Avg Early-Career Salary
History degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #23 out of the 38 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 74 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best History Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 5,575 degrees in history during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best History Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for History in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of history degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
University of Pennsylvania is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in history. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 102 history students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year. History degree recipients from University of Pennsylvania get an earnings boost of about $19,299 over the average earnings of history majors.
It's difficult to beat Princeton University if you wish to pursue a degree in history. Located in the city of Princeton, Princeton is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #10 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Princeton is a great university overall.
There were approximately 120 history students who graduated with this degree at Princeton in the most recent data year. History degree recipients from Princeton University earn a boost of around $19,694 above the typical earnings of history graduates.
It is hard to beat Georgetown University if you want to pursue a degree in history. Georgetown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were about 71 history students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent data year. History degree recipients from Georgetown University receive an earnings boost of around $15,610 over the average earnings of history majors.
It is hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a degree in history. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were roughly 177 history students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the history degree program at Columbia University in the City of New York earn $10,853 more than the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #27 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 156 history students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available. Those history students who get their degree from New York University make $14,909 more than the typical history grad.
Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #49 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means GWU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 91 history students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year. Those history students who get their degree from George Washington University make $11,087 more than the typical history graduate.
Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were roughly 66 history students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the history program state that they receive average early career wages of $27,797.
Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. A Best Colleges rank of #79 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Pitt is a great university overall.
There were about 127 history students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the history program make around $27,234 in their early career salary.
Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMCP is a great university overall.
There were about 95 history students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the history program at University of Maryland - College Park earn $3,218 above the standard college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Barnard is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #77 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Barnard is a great college overall.
There were about 41 history students who graduated with this degree at Barnard in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the history degree program at Barnard College earn $2,969 more than the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #98 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Rutgers New Brunswick is a great university overall.
There were approximately 94 history students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent year we have data available. Those history students who get their degree from Rutgers University - New Brunswick make $5,067 more than the typical history graduate.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best History Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
