With more than thirty full-time faculty members with a wide range of professional interests, each student's program of thirty semester hours (including six hours for the thesis) is tailored to enhance his or her career objectives.

The History MA program serves three main constituencies: people who intend to go on to a PhD in history; people who intend to go into teaching (or who are already teachers) in high schools and community colleges; people, often mid-career professionals, who simply love history.

We welcome applicants of all ages and backgrounds. It is not essential to have majored in history as an undergraduate. Our students have included judges, lawyers, mechanics, union organizers, and retired state department employees, etc.

While most of our students complete their degree in two years, others work on their MA degree part-time, so they can continue their jobs while going to school, or combine family responsibilities with their own education, or simply explore the possibilities of graduate study at their own pace. All students must complete the program in six years.

Our graduates have gone on to excellent Ph.D. programs such as UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, The College of William and Mary, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, George Washington University, The Ohio State University, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, and Stanford University.  Other graduates move on to a broad range of fields, such as law, banking, non-profit organizations and a variety of private sector jobs. A degree in history will strengthen researching and writing abilites, providing a critical edge in today's job market.