History at Dartmouth College

If you are interested in studying history, you may want to check out the program at Dartmouth College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and approximately 6,292 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,384 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 2021, 59 of them were history majors.

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

Dartmouth History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History

Dartmouth History Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the history progam at Dartmouth compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The history major at Dartmouth 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
	19
	19
Most Popular History Schools	131
Most Focused History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	137

Earnings of Dartmouth History Graduates

The median salary of history students who receive their bachelor's degree at Dartmouth is $42,685. This is 48% higher than $28,881, which is the national average for all history bachelor's degree recipients.

History Student Demographics at Dartmouth

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

Dartmouth History Bachelor’s Program

Of the 59 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in history from Dartmouth in 2021, 63% were men and 37% were women.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in history at Dartmouth are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 Dartmouth College with a bachelor's in history.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	35
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Dartmouth 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 NH, the home state for Dartmouth College.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
High School Teachers	5,130	$61,510
Managers	950	$123,580
History Professors	110	$97,700

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 Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.