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If you look at table 2, Wesleyan is at the top not UCB.
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<p>Thanks for noticing Captain Obvious, I inferred this when I said </p>
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...proportionally it's terrible.
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<p>from another post, LACs with a high number of history graduates. 2004 data</p>
<p>college, total graduates, history graduates, proportion of history graduates</p>
<p>COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS 675 75 0.11
FURMAN UNIVERSITY 643 63 0.1
COLGATE UNIVERSITY 646 52 0.08
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE 278 49 0.18
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE 597 49 0.08
DAVIDSON COLLEGE 426 45 0.11
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 531 45 0.08
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 398 43 0.11
DENISON UNIVERSITY 514 42 0.08
OBERLIN COLLEGE 722 40 0.06
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 722 40 0.06
CARLETON COLLEGE 455 38 0.08
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 499 37 0.07
KENYON COLLEGE 399 36 0.09
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER 391 35 0.09
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 396 35 0.09
VASSAR COLLEGE 614 35 0.06
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND 757 34 0.04
GRINNELL COLLEGE 367 33 0.09
AMHERST COLLEGE 428 33 0.08
COLBY COLLEGE 486 33 0.07
TRINITY COLLEGE 492 33 0.07
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 632 33 0.05
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE 364 32 0.09
BATES COLLEGE 450 31 0.07</p>
<p>History...</p>
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<p>I forgot about that.</p>
<p>I thought the guy asked for basic top 10...</p>
<p>Well, it's fairly clear that in the most basic and most common subjects, you'll find many of the "basic best" in the mix. History is a subject you can study at almost any school, really, and have many resources available. It's just so established.</p>
<p>Any other input?</p>
<p>I agree with DRab. History, English, biology, psych...it's sort of a waste of time to base your UNDERGRAD choice on the quality of departments in standard subjects like this. With few exceptions, any high-quality college will be just fine in these subjects (and a lot of other subjects). Better to base your undergrad choice on the overall quality of the institution, and other "fit" factors like big city/rural, large enrollment/ small enrollment, warm winter/frigid winter, bigtime sports/bigtime frisbee, liberal/really liberal.</p>
<p>^ I agree with that 200%. for standard run of the mill majors like english, history..., any good-quality state school will be good enuff for ur career. For example, if you have a good GPA, ECs and whatnot i dont think your future employer will give you a mandatory 30 pushups every morning just because youre a berkley history graduate. One more thing, other important factor that u cannot affort to overlook is girl/boy ratio</p>
<p>I'm sorry... are you really 16?????</p>
<p>huh? where did u get that idea?
for the record, im not 16!!!</p>
<p>"huh? where did u get that idea?"</p>
<p>Your profile.....</p>
<p>"Date of Birth:
August 10, 1990"</p>
<p>"the error" has been corrected</p>
<p>of course, you have my permission to PM me if you want to know more about me only if youre a girl :)</p>
<p>I don't know if it ranks in the top 10 for schools for History majors -but if you want an excellent History program and NYC -try Fordham.</p>
<p>I'm not really into a school that is directly in a big city. thanks though!</p>
<p>Be mindful also that some schools have specific specialties in History and therefore have professors whom are noted scholars in that subject. Henry Louis Gates at Harvard, Phillip Foner and the late William Shenton at Columbia (all in American History) for example.</p>
<p>how about classics?</p>
<p>History is an area where the best education and grad placement will likely come from the best overall school. You can;t go by ranks, you hav to dig deeper. Ohio State might have an awesome graduate history dept (I'm not sure, making it up), but if you think you'll get a better education and grad placement there over a top LAC you're seriously kidding yourself. </p>
<p>I was an anthro major at Dartmouth and got 10K for thesis research (which I did in the pacific), had four classes with under 5 people, a two professors to one (me) thesis program for a year, and I had been to multiple profs houses for dinner by the time I was done. Of the 7-8 who went to grad school in anthro from my year, 100% ended up at the top 5 anthro PhD programs. Guess what, there is no graduate history dept at Dartmouth so it was unranked. But the overall reputation of Dartmouth is what counts, and to be honest having 100% of my professors attention was the difference between my amazing academic experience vs. my friends at other schools.</p>
<p>Look for the school that funds undergraduate thesis research, has the strongest OVERALL reputation, and which caters to undergrads not some random rank of graduate depts that has little to do with the undergrad experience.</p>
<p>"cannot affort to overlook is girl/boy ratio"</p>
<p>Agreed. Very important. You don't want to spend your college years sitting around a dorm room with a bunch of other guys, like you're in a World War II prisoner-of-war movie.</p>
<p>Another thing to look at is the sexual orientation of the males and females. If you're a hetero guy, lots of gay guys enrolled makes the ratio better for you. Lots of lesbians enrolled makes it tougher for you.</p>
<p>“Agreed. Very important. You don't want to spend your college years sitting around a dorm room with a bunch of other guys, like you're in a World War II prisoner-of-war movie.</p>
<p>Another thing to look at is the sexual orientation of the males and females. If you're a hetero guy, lots of gay guys enrolled makes the ratio better for you. Lots of lesbians enrolled makes it tougher for you.”</p>
<p>You should also look at the kind of ice cream the dinning halls serve. And you cant forget proximity to a Taco Bell…. Mmmmm chalupas…..</p>
<p>kk apparently didn't make a good choice on the boy/girl ratio...It's Friday night and he's busting my chops instead of dazzling the ladies of Chicagoland with the fact that he didn't have to go to Tufts. kk, why don't you go out and get yourself one of those Northwestern nursing students?</p>