Rating History Graduate Programs in the US

Sharon Michalove, Editor, H-Albion (mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Tue, 4 Apr 1995 07:27:07 -0600

Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 22:53:09 -0600
Subject: rating the "best" History programs in US, 1995

RATING THE HISTORY GRADUATE PROGRAMS 1995
method: based on surveys early 1995 to department chairs & directors
of graduate study at all History departments that produced 5 or more
Phds since 1989. SOURCE: US News and World Report March 20, 1995 p108

OVERALL
1 Yale 10 Wisconsin 18 Texas
1 Princeton 10 John Hopkins 18 Northwestern
3 UC Berkeley 10 Cornell 18 Illinois-Urbana
4 Stanford 13 North Carolina 21 Virginia
4 Chicago 14 Pennsylvania 21 Rutgers
6 Michigan 14 Duke 23 Minnesota
7 UCLA 16 Brown 24 U Washington
7 Harvard 17 Indiana 25 Emory
7 Columbia 25
CUNY-Graduate School

25 Brandeis
BY SPECIALTY PROGRAMS:

Modern US African-American European Latin American
1 Yale 1 Berkeley 1
Princeton 1 Texas
2 Berkeley 2 Yale 2
Berkeley 2 UCLA
3 Wisconsin 3 Harvard 3 Yale
3 Wisconsin
4 Stanford 4 Michigan 4 Columbia
4 Florida
5 Columbia 5 Duke 5 Harvard
5 Berkeley
5 Columbia

US Colonial Cultural Women's Asian
1 Yale 1 Berkeley 1 Rutgers 1
Berkeley
2 Hopkins 2 Princeton 2 Wisconsin 2 Harvard
3 Harvard 3 Yale 3 Yale
3 Yale
4 Princeton 4 Chicago 4 North Car 4 UCLA
5 Penn 5 Penn 5 Berkeley
5 Columbia

Sincerely,

Sharon D. Michalove
Assistant to the Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of History, UIUC
309 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4145 mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

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