<p>I am looking for a good college to get a major in history. I want to eventually have a doctorate in history and become a professor. I live on the East Coast and would like to stay here but I am finding it very hard to find a list of colleges who are good for history majors. I will take all the help I can get. Thanks guys!</p>
<p>You should know that there are far, far more people with Ph.D.s in History than there are full-time permanent jobs for them. Also consider that you will have zero control over your geographic location in the unlikely event that you do find a tenure-track position, so you may have to leave the east coast at that point.</p>
<p>The good news is that you’ve got quite some time before you have to commit to that path. Go to a liberal arts college, read widely, major in history if you want, and then decide what to do with your life.</p>
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Take the USNWR top 100 universities and top 50 or so LACs, scratch off the tech schools, and you have a list of colleges good in history.</p>
<p>Any top college worth its salt will have at least decent departments in history, English, and biology.</p>
<p>I recommend William and Mary for American History.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergrad history</p>
<p>Yale
Berkeley
Princeton
Harvard
Stanford
Michigan
Columbia
Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Wisconsin
Cornell
Indiana U
U Penn
Brown
UNC Chapel Hill
UCLA
Northwestern
UVA
U Texas Austin
U Rochester
U Illinois UC
U Notre Dame
U Washington
U Minnesota
U Iowa
Duke
Rutgers
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
NYU
Vanderbilt
Washington U St Louis
U Maryland CP
Ohio St
Missouri Columbia
Emory
U Pitt
Rice
SUNY Stonybrook
Dartmouth
Brandeis
U Kansas
Boston U
UC Davis
SUNY Buffalo
Michigan St </p>
<p>Rugg’s Recommendations for history
Albion (MI) ………
Amherst (MA) ……
Barnard (NY) ….
Boston Col. (MA) ….
Boston U. (MA) …….
Bowdoin (ME) …….
Brandeis (MA) ……
Brown (RI) ………
Bryn Mawr ¶ .,
Bucknell ¶ …,
California, U. of (Berkeley) …
California, U. of (Los Angeles) …
Carleton (MN) ……
Centre (KY) ……,
Chicago, U. of (IL) ….’
Claremont McKenna (CA) ………
Colgate (NY) ……….’
Colorado Co. ……
Columbia (NY) ……,
Connecticut Co. ….’
Cornell (NY) ………
Dallas, U. of (TX) ……….,
Davidson (NC) ……
Dickinson ¶ ….
Drew (NJ) ……
Duke (NC) ……
Emory (GA) ….
George Washington (DC) ….
Georgetown (DC) “,
Gettysburg ¶ ……
Grinnell (IA) ……,
Hamilton (NY) ……
Harvard (MA) …
Haverford ¶ …
Holy Cross (MA) ….
Kalamazoo (Ml) …….
Kenyon (OH) ….
Lafayette ¶ ……
Lawrence (WI) …….
Macalester (MN) …
Middlebury (VT) ……
Mount Holyoke (MA) …
North Carolina, U. of ….
Northwestern (lL) ……
Notre Dame (IN) ….
Oberlin (OH) ………,
Pennsylvania, U. of ……
Pomona (CA) …….
Princeton (NJ) …
Reed (OR) ………
Rhodes (TN) ….,
Rice (TX) …….
Smith (M~) ……………
South, U. of the (TN) ….
Southwestern (TX) ….,
Swarthmore ¶ ……’
Texas Christian U. (TX) ……
Trinity (TX) …
Tufts (MA) ……
Tulane (LA) …….
Union (NY) ….,
Vanderbilt (TN) …
Vassar (NY) ….
Virginia, U. of ….
Wabash (IN) …….
Wake Forest (NC) …
Washington & lee (VA) ….
Wellesley (MA) ………,
Whitman (WA) ……’
William & Mary (VA) ……,
Williams (MA) ……
Yeshiva (NY) …….</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for that list. That should really help me.</p>
<p>There are more than that report. Any of the Jesuit colleges on the east coast are strong in History. BC, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross. I know for a fact that Fordham’s faculty in History is amazing… and almost all of them have Ivy credentials with some from UChicago, Notre Dame, UCLA and UCSD. </p>
<p>Other than that, most colleges usually have a very competent History Dept. Some may be stronger in a particular subset, like American History, Civil War History, Medieval History, European History etc. So check their programs and faculty credentials.</p>
<p>If you are fixated on getting a PhD in History and teaching, there are over 2,000 colleges in the United States with a lot of very old faculty preparing to retire. There will be jobs.</p>
<p>Yeah, you might get better suggestions if you narrowed your field of interest for us.</p>
<p>American history? World history? Area Studies? Etc.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Bowdoin, Colgate.</p>
<p>U Wisconsin Madison.</p>
<p>U Rochester! I have two teachers at my school who did undergrad there for history. One went on to grad school at Wesleyan and the other at Oxford.</p>
<p>I prefer history from medieval to feudal england, and colonial to civil war.</p>
<p>hopeful878: Wesleyan doesn’t offer graduate history degrees…</p>
<p>but I recommend it for undergrad history</p>
<p>For the east coast, William and Mary or UVA are good choices for history. William and Mary is great for early American history especially.</p>
<p>if you’re thinking of california, UCSB has a good classical history research group and UCLA is well known for its history department</p>
<p>i’ve always thought that the claremont colleges had good history departments, since professors from CMC and Pomona would always be on the History Channel!</p>
<p>I would like to stay on the east coast preferably but I was wondering if a lot of the 50,000 dollar schools give out good financial aid, My mom only makes 45,000 a year and she has money saved up for me. I noticed a lot of the colleges people are recommending are around 50,000 and it made me wonder how good the finacial aid was, if anyone knows please let me know. Also the two colleges i noticed on the east coast that are a bit cheaper are William and Mary and Boston U, which of the two is better?</p>