History at Oklahoma City Community College

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

OCCC is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and approximately 12,227 students attend the school each year.

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

OCCC History Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in History

Online Classes Are Available at OCCC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? OCCC offers distance education options for history at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

OCCC History Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

History Student Demographics at OCCC

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

OCCC History Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of history associate's degrees went to men and 27% went to women.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in history at OCCC are white. Around 60% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree. OCCC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in history graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within History

History majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Oklahoma City Community College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
History	15

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism
• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
• Education
• Social Sciences
• Psychology

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 OK, the home state for Oklahoma City Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
High School Teachers	11,400	$42,540
Managers	1,780	$102,710
History Professors	170	$65,660
Curators	170	$46,840
Museum Technicians and Conservators	110	$34,410

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.