<p>A similar question is on this forum already but I am hoping someone can provide a more extensive list. My youngest son, a 10th grader, will begin his search next year and is wide open re: size, location, etc. He is not a science guy and as a starting point may want to peruse a selection of the better history departments. Can you refer us to a site or furnish such a compilation? Thanks!</p>
<p>You can go to jajnsn.com and the Vanguard rankings there rank history departments (though you have to pay a fee). All I remember is that Yale is usually tops and that Wisconsin is pretty high up, and good in polisci also since it's in the state capital.</p>
<p>If you absolutely insist on on rankings, NRC is a good source for universities (but not LACs).
<a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html</a></p>
<p>However, I think such rankings are meaningless at the undergraduate level. History is a major that is strong at many, many LACs and universities. I'd advise y'all to look at schools that fit in other ways. Location should play a factor, although people might not think it does. There's a considerable amount of difference between New York University in the middle of NYC and Vassar College in the middle of nowhere. The same goes for size...the same student wouldn't be happy at UC Berkeley and Swarthmore either, I don't think. Once you get a list of schools that match, then you might want to evaluate their history programs without relying on rankings (do they offer study abroad? teaching certification? range of history covered? student research? grad school placement?).</p>
<p>Gourman Report Undergrad rankings for history:
(Gourman tends to favor large universities, particularly publics)
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 (alphabetical):
(Rugg's tends to favor LACs. I am only including those not already mentioned above...there is overlap between Gourman and Rugg's)
Albion
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Boston C
Boston U
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Carleton
Centre
Claremont McKenna
Colgate
Colorado C
Connecticut C
U Dallas
Davidson
Dickinson
Drew
George Washington
Georgetown
Grinnell
Hamilton
Harvard
Haverford
Holy Cross
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Lafayette
Lawrence
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Northwestern
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Rhodes
Smith
U of the South
Southwestern
Swarthmore
Texas Christian
Trinity (TX)
Tufts
Tulane
Union
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wabash
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
William and Mary
Williams
Yeshiva</p>
<p>Thanks to every body.</p>