History at Santa Monica College

Every history school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the history program at Santa Monica College stacks up to those at other schools.

SMC is located in Santa Monica, California and has a total student population of 25,948.

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

SMC History Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in History

Online Classes Are Available at SMC

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? SMC offers distance education options for history at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

SMC History Rankings

History Student Demographics at SMC

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

SMC History Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of history associate's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in history only graduates about 43% women each year. The program at SMC may seem more female-friendly since it graduates 10% more women than average.

SMC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in history graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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 Santa Monica 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

More about our data sources and methodologies.