Best History Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best History Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great History School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of history for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to history students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other history students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for history to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized history related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for history students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Because of absent data, we were not able to show you the history quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer history and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other History rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for History ranking.

Best History Colleges by State

Explore the best history colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	27	15
Missouri	27	8
Kansas	26	7
Iowa	26	1
Nebraska	24	4
North Dakota	21	3

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History Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
History	32

Majors Similar to History

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theology & Religious Vocations	292
Social Sciences	222
English Language & Literature	71
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	58
Communication & Journalism	52
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	37
Philosophy & Religious Studies	22
Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies	20

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Abraham Ortelius. More about our data sources and methodologies.