2025 Best General History Associate Degree Schools

General History is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #58 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general history students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,315 associate degrees in general history during the <nil> academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Associate Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general history students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general history students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general history related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general history students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General History Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study General History in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in general history.

Top Schools for an Associate in General History

1

American Public University System
Charles Town, WV

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

26 Annual Graduates

American Public University System is a good choice for students interested in an associate degree in general history. American Military University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the town of Charles Town.More information about a associate in general history from American Public University System

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Liberty University if you wish to pursue an associate degree in general history. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg.More information about a associate in general history from Liberty University

General History by Region

View the Best General History Associate Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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General History Related Rankings by Major

One of 8 majors within the History area of study, General History has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to General History

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public/Applied History	96
Military History	20
Other History	11

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.