PhD history ranking - which ones give funding?

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<p>Best</a> History Programs | Top History Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools</p>

<p>Do the top 20 schools give funding for PhD History program? Top 50?</p>

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<p>Schools give funding for phds because what your doing your phd in is in demand. Is your history phd in demand? Is there a specialization that is needed? Or a hot topic issue? For example some schools fund for a bio defense phd, while others do not. Bio defense, even from the policy stand point, on some school sites, is a mostly political science degree; usually not funded, but this one is. You need to see if your school degree your going for is going to be in demand and needed.</p>

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<p>Yes, most “top” schools offer funding for their PhD programs, though the particular details (source, length, teaching requirement, etc.) will likely vary. You should be able to find this information on each program’s website.</p>

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<p>Top schools in nearly every social science discipline fund the vast majority, if not all, of the people they admit into PhD programs. I’m not a historian, but my sense is that this applies to history PhD programs. Certainly history grad students are funded at the institutions where I have spent time, which include several of those on the list linked by the OP.</p>

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<p>Humanity/social science doctoral students are funded differently from science/engineering students. Most will be in the form of teaching assistantships and fellowships from institutional funds, instead of research assistantships from external grants/contracts. </p>

<p>Typically, top programs at well-endowed institutions will support more of their students for longer periods of time, asking for less work. Other programs would expect you to “earn” the support through TAing.</p>

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<p>What is the definition of top schools? Is it the top 20? top 50? top 100?</p>

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<p>Also how much funding / stipend do they pay you for PhDs in history? Could you expect to be pay 30k per year? 25k?</p>

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<p>$30k per year? Not likely unless it’s one of the very tippy-top schools. Stipends are poverty-level, or close to it.</p>

<p>Use this Web site for some idea of where things are at: <a href=“http://chronicle.com/stats/stipends/[/url]”>http://chronicle.com/stats/stipends/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For example, the average stipend for a history teaching assistant at Duke University is $11,000 per academic year, and a research assistant $18,000 per academic year.</p>

<p>UCLA and UChicago pay around $19,000.</p>

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<p>My statement was referring to programs in the top 10-15 in their fields. Typical stipend (fellowship or TAship) is in the range of 20-30K/year these days.</p>

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<p>UChicago and UCLA are top 5-10 programs in history. Their average stipend is not even $20,000.</p>

<p>Social sciences stipends are not comparable to hard sciences stipends.</p>

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<p>20-30k per year (if you can get summer support), not per academic year. For example, Yale pays 26500 for the whole year.</p>

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<p>That’s a big “if” at most schools.</p>

<p>Lots of history students support themselves in the summertime by working in public history positions such as park/museum interpretation.</p>