2024 Best General History Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
4
Colleges in the Plains States Region
35
Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
general history, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #40 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General History Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 35 doctor's degrees in general history during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General History School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general history for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general history program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general history students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general history students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general history related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general history students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General History Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.