History at Colorado Mesa University

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

Colorado Mesa is located in Grand Junction, Colorado and approximately 9,110 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students received a bachelor's degree in history from Colorado Mesa.

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

Colorado Mesa History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History

Colorado Mesa History Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the history progam at Colorado Mesa 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 Colorado Mesa 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
	166
Best History Schools	340
Most Popular History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	534

Earnings of Colorado Mesa History Graduates

The median salary of history students who receive their bachelor's degree at Colorado Mesa is $30,442. This is 5% higher than $28,881, which is the national average for all history bachelor's degree recipients.

History Student Demographics at Colorado Mesa

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the history majors at Colorado Mesa University.

Colorado Mesa History Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Colorado Mesa. About 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical history bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Colorado Mesa since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in history at Colorado Mesa are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Colorado Mesa University with a bachelor's in history.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Colorado Mesa 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 CO, the home state for Colorado Mesa University.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
High School Teachers	16,950	$55,110
Managers	8,940	$138,490
History Professors	360	$70,690
Museum Technicians and Conservators	280	$42,580
Curators	220	$62,090

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 Cygnusloop99 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.