by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 32,731 people earned their degree in history, making the major the 23rd 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 New Hampshire, there were 672 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,580 and $25,685 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 225 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,663 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in history. That schools that top this list have a program in history in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new hampshire master’s degree history students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern New Hampshire University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern New Hampshire University is located in Manchester, New Hampshire and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 218 masters’s history degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified masters’s history students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Keene State College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire list. Keene State College is located in Keene, New Hampshire and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s history degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, New England College landed the #4 spot on the list. Henniker, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s history degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
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