History
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Early Career Income
$69,576
Lifetime Income
$3.70M
Unemployment rate
3.5%
Female share
39.4%
Occupation concentration
40.9%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
22.3%
% who double-major
27.2%
BA Graduates from 2024
23,390
-2.6% vs 2023
How History compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
51st
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 51% of majors
24th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 24% of majors
35th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 35% of majors
Top occupations
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for History.
- History and Language/Literature
- History and Political Science
- History, General
- European History
- History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- Public/Applied History
- Asian History
- Canadian History
- Military History
- History, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology