U.S. Colonial History

Ranked in 2013, part of History

Students of U.S. colonial history delve into issues colonists faced in the days before the nation's founding, from landing in America through the Revolutionary War. These are the top graduate schools for U.S. colonial history.

Rank School name
#12 Brown University

Providence, RI

#3 College of William and Mary (Tyler)

Williamsburg, VA

#1 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#6 Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

#11 New York University

New York, NY

#8 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#14 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#9 University of California–​Davis

Davis, CA

#9 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#7 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

#12 University of North Carolina–​Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

#2 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

#5 University of Virginia (Corcoran)

Charlottesville, VA

#4 Yale University

New Haven, CT

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