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History

Liberal Arts

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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.

Top occupations

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

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