If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in humanities, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #238 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for humanities students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 47 doctor's degrees in humanities to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Humanities School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of humanities for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality humanities program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to humanities students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other humanities students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized humanities related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for humanities students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Humanities Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Humanities in the United States
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for humanities students seeking a a doctor's degree.
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.