The main focus area for this major is General History. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
History is a major offered under the history program of study at Syracuse University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in history, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Gain a rich foundation of knowledge ranging from early history to modern times with this online bachelor's degree in history from Southern New Hampshire University.
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Syracuse was ranked #61 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for history majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #7 in New York.
Here are some of the other rankings for Syracuse.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Syracuse was $2,363 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $53,432 | $53,432 |
Fees | $1,656 | $1,656 |
Books and Supplies | $1,564 | $1,564 |
On Campus Room and Board | $16,356 | $16,356 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,806 | $1,806 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Syracuse in History walked away with an average of $27,000 in student debt. That is 18% higher than the national average of $22,851.
history who receive their bachelor’s degree from Syracuse make an average of $36,488 a year during the early days of their career. That is 26% higher than the national average of $28,971.
Online degrees for the Syracuse history bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Syracuse Online Learning page.
Women made up around 49.2% of the history students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 42.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in history at Syracuse in 2019-2020, 27.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 26%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 6 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 43 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
History students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General History | 63 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.