General History is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #23 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Kentucky 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 355 degrees in general history during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of general history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Schools in Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general history degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in general history needs to check out Centre College. Centre College of Kentucky is a small private not-for-profit college located in the distant town of Danville. A Best Colleges rank of #411 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Centre College of Kentucky is a great college overall.
There were approximately 24 general history students who graduated with this degree at Centre College of Kentucky in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in general history needs to look into University of Kentucky. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were about 50 general history students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year.
University of Louisville is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general history. UofL is a very large public university located in the city of Louisville. A Best Colleges rank of #338 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UofL is a great university overall.
There were about 46 general history students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general history needs to look into Northern Kentucky University. Located in the large suburb of Highland Heights, NKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 30 general history students who graduated with this degree at NKU in the most recent year we have data available.
WKU is a large public university located in the city of Bowling Green. This university ranks 7th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 49 general history students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent data year.
Murray State is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Murray. This university ranks 9th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 23 general history students who graduated with this degree at Murray State in the most recent data year.
Located in the town of Richmond, Eastern is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 30 general history students who graduated with this degree at Eastern in the most recent data year.
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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Your choice of general history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
