2025 Best History Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in history, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #20 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best History Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 74 bachelor's degrees in history to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 history students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of history students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt history students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized history related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for history students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank History Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study History in Montana

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in history.

Top Montana Schools for a Bachelor's in History

1

The University of Montana
Missoula, MT

23 Annual Graduates

$28,508 Median Starting Salary

The University of Montana is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in history. UM is a large public university located in the small city of Missoula.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the history program make around $28,508 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in history from The University of Montana

2

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT

35 Annual Graduates

$29,692 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in history needs to check out Montana State University. MSU Bozeman is a large public university located in the small city of Bozeman.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the history program make about $29,692 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in history from Montana State University

Best History Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best History Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	204	287
Colorado	190	496
Idaho	171	115
Wyoming	70	32

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Rankings in Majors Related to History

History is one of 0 different types of History programs to choose from.

History Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General History	71
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology	3

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.