2024 Best General History Schools in District of Columbia
4Colleges in District of Columbia
240General History Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general history, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #23 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for general history students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 240 degrees in general history during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The general history program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General History rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general history schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General History Schools in District of Columbia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General History in District of Columbia
The schools below may not offer all types of general history degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top District of Columbia Schools in General History
It is difficult to beat Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a degree in general history. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were roughly 64 general history students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat George Washington University if you wish to pursue a degree in general history. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #49 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means GWU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 78 general history students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year.
American University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general history. The American University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 3rd out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 56 general history students who graduated with this degree at The American University in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Catholic University of America if you wish to pursue a degree in general history. Located in the city of Washington, CUA is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 5th out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 27 general history students who graduated with this degree at CUA in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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The general history program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General History rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general history schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
