History at Mills College

What traits are you looking for in a history school? To help you decide if Mills College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's history program.

Mills is located in Oakland, California and has a total student population of 961. Of the 183 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mills College in 2021, 4 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.

Mills History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History

Mills History Rankings

The history major at Mills 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.

History Student Demographics at Mills

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

Mills History Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 history majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mills. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical history bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Mills since its program graduates 57% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 72% 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 Mills College with a bachelor's in history.

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

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

Concentrations Within History

If you plan to be a history major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Mills College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
History	4

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
• Psychology
• Social Sciences

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 CA, the home state for Mills College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
High School Teachers	112,960	$80,510
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Museum Technicians and Conservators	1,890	$48,120
History Professors	1,380	$103,940
Curators	1,140	$67,650

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 Sanfranman59 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.