Where can your student study history, and what does the degree pay?

• 1173 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's history program: 1166 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 1 more report a history admit rate in the UC/CSU data; 6 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: Southern New Hampshire University (315), Liberty University (246), University of California-Los Angeles (222).
• 69 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Berkeley — History, Fall 2025: 1,065 applied, 138 admitted (13%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: Sonoma State University — 98.8% (81 applied, 80 admitted, Fall 2025).
• 1 CSU campus report history on the transfer side only: freshmen enter as another major or undeclared and apply into the program later.
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Dartmouth College, $136,403.
• Lowest average net price with aid: Texas A&M University-Central Texas, $1,300 per year.

Cal State Monterey Bay reports history on the transfer side only, which means it published no first-year row for the major: freshmen there start in another major or undeclared and declare history later, while transfer applicants apply straight into it. Everywhere else in this data history reports a first-year number, so the gate a family plans around is admission to the campus itself. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (69 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.