<p>How have your history classes been? How large were the classes? Were the professors good or helpful? Is there history research available?</p>
<p>It seems it has a very good program - if you take the National Research Council's history ranking and weight faculty quality & educational effectiveness (educational quality) equally, you get the following ranking of the top 20 departments:</p>
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<li>Yale University 20.7 4.6 4.9
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<li>Princeton University 19.7 4.5 4.8 </li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley 19.7 4.5 4.8 </li>
<li>Stanford University 18.1 4.4 4.6 </li>
<li>Columbia University in the City of New York 17.5 4.3 4.6 </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University 17.1 4.4 4.4 </li>
<li>University of Chicago 16.5 4.2 4.5 </li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison 16.5 4.3 4.4 </li>
<li>Harvard University 16.4 4.0 4.7 </li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles 16.4 4.1 4.6 </li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 14.9 4.1 4.3 </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 14.4 4.1 4.2 </li>
<li>Cornell University 13.3 3.9 4.2 </li>
<li>Brown University 12.3 3.9 4.0 </li>
<li>Duke University 11.2 3.8 3.9 </li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10.7 3.8 3.8 </li>
<li>Northwestern University 10.6 3.7 3.9 </li>
<li>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 10.2 3.8 3.7 </li>
<li>Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 9.6 3.7 3.7 </li>
<li>University of Virginia-Main Campus 9.6 3.7 3.7</li>
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