by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 32,731 people earned their degree in history, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, history graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,467 and had an average of $23,587 in loans still to pay off.
Across Montana, there were 93 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,905 and $24,624 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 79 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,324 and $24,992 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in history. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular history programs in the United States.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Montana is a fairly large school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 33 bachelors’s history degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. MSU Bozeman is a public institution located in Bozeman, Montana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carroll College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s. Carroll Montana is a small school located in Helena, Montana that handed out 8 bachelors’s history degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rocky Mountain College landed the #4 spot on the list. Billings, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s history degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana - Western. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s. Located in Dillon, Montana, this small public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s history students in 2020-2021.
Montana State University - Billings did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Billings, Montana, this small public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s history students in 2020-2021.
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University of Providence came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended History Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s ranking. University of Providence is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Great Falls, Montana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s history degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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