History at Albright College

If you plan to study history, take a look at what Albright College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Albright is located in Reading, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,584. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 16 students received a bachelor's degree in history from Albright.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in History section at the bottom of this page.

Albright History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History

Albright History Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks history programs across the country. The following shows how Albright performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The history major at Albright is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for History. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	261
Best History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	263
Best Value History Schools	266
	326
Most Popular History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	438

How Much Do History Graduates from Albright Make?

The median salary of history students who receive their bachelor's degree at Albright is $25,299. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,881 for all history students.

History Student Demographics at Albright

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the history majors at Albright College.

Albright History Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of history bachelor's degrees went to men and 56% went to women. The typical history bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Albright since its program graduates 13% more women than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in history at Albright are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its history bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Albright College with a bachelor's in history.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Albright also has a doctoral program available in history. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That History Grads May Go Into

A degree in history can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Albright College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
High School Teachers	50,460	$64,830
Managers	11,060	$126,290
History Professors	1,000	$93,300
Curators	670	$53,840
Museum Technicians and Conservators	600	$42,700

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Gcarbone2014 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.