Graduate Programs is pleased to announce its 4th annual Fall 2015 Rankings of the Top History Graduate Programs according to graduate students
Program rankings, compiled using data gathered between September 1, 2012 and September 30, 2015, encompass reviews posted by more than 75,000 students participating in over 1,600 graduate programs nationwide. Ratings are based on a 10 star system (with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best).
For specific ranking information, please click on the History Rankings page.
The Top 25 History Grad Programs are listed below:
1 Harvard University
2 Brown University
3 The University of Texas at Austin
4 Stanford University
5 Princeton University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 Washington University in St. Louis
8 Rice University
9 Texas State University
10 California State University Northridge
11 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12 Utah State University
13 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
14 Yale University
15 University of Southern California
16 University of Pittsburgh
17 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
18 Duke University
19 Rutgers University-New Brunswick
20 University of San Diego
21 Northwestern University
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
23 Columbia University
24 University of Wisconsin-Madison
25 University of California-Los Angeles
METHODOLOGY
Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms.
Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid and quality of network.
For a given graduate program, rankings are determined by calculating the average score for each program based on the 15 ranking categories. These scores are then compared across all ranked schools for that program and are translated into a final ranking for that graduate program, i.e., “business and management”. A given graduate program is not ranked until a minimum threshold of graduate student surveys is completed for that program.