2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 229 people earned their degree in public/applied history, making the major the 828th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 62 public/applied history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 public/applied history graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public/applied history. That schools that top this list have a program in public/applied history in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree public/applied history students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History in the Southeast Region

1

Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. NKU is a public institution located in Highland Heights, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public/Applied History at NKU

2

University of North Alabama
Florence, Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Alabama. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region. University of North Alabama is a medium-sized school located in Florence, Alabama that handed out 2 masters’s public/applied history degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Public/Applied History at University of North Alabama

3

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Columbia, South Carolina, and it awarded 8 masters’s public/applied history degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public/Applied History at University of South Carolina - Columbia

4

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Southeast Region. North Carolina State University is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 7 masters’s public/applied history degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public/Applied History at North Carolina State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.