History

Ranked in 2013 | 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.

Rank	School name	Score
#1	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4.8
#1	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA	4.8
#1	Yale University New Haven, CT	4.8
#4	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	4.7
#4	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4.7
#4	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	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	4.5
#9	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	4.5
#11	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	4.4
#11	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	4.4
#11	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.4
#14	Duke University Durham, NC	4.3
#14	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	4.3
#14	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI	4.3
#17	University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX	4.2
#18	Brown University Providence, RI	4.1
#18	New York University New York, NY	4.1
#20	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	4.0
#20	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL	4.0
#20	University of Virginia (Corcoran) Charlottesville, VA	4.0
#23	Indiana University–Bloomington Bloomington, IN	3.9
#24	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	3.8
#24	University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3.8

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