History

Ranked in 2009

History Rankings Methodology

Earning a graduate degree in history involves analysis, research, and presentations. In some cases, students must also complete a thesis and master a second language before graduation. These are the top graduate schools for history.

Save Rank College name Score
#1 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

4.8
#1 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4.8
#1 University of California--Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

4.8
#1 Yale University

New Haven, CT

4.8
#5 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

4.7
#5 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

4.7
#7 Columbia University

New York, NY

4.6
#7 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

4.6
#9 Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

4.5
#9 University of California--Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

4.5
#9 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

4.5
#12 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

4.4
#12 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

4.4
#14 Duke University

Durham, NC

4.2
#14 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

4.2
#14 University of Wisconsin--Madison

Madison, WI

4.2
#17 Brown University

Providence, RI

4.1
#17 New York University

New York, NY

4.1
#17 University of Texas--Austin

Austin, TX

4.1
#20 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

4.0
#20 University of Virginia (Corcoran)

Charlottesville, VA

4.0
#22 Indiana University--Bloomington

Bloomington, IN

3.9
#22 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

3.9
#24 Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

3.8
#24 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

3.8

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