History at Sterling College

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

Sterling College is located in Sterling, Kansas and has a total student population of 678.

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

Sterling College History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History

Online Classes Are Available at Sterling College

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

Sterling College History Rankings

The history major at Sterling College 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 Sterling College

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

Sterling College History Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of history bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical history bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Sterling College since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in history at Sterling College are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

Concentrations Within History

The following history concentations are available at Sterling College. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Sterling College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
History	6

Related Majors

• Philosophy & Religious Studies
• Social Sciences
• Communication & Journalism
• Theology & Religious Vocations

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 KS, the home state for Sterling College.

Occupation	Jobs in KS	Average Salary in KS
High School Teachers	11,660	$51,490
Managers	2,420	$102,560
Museum Technicians and Conservators	160	$36,040
History Professors	150	$75,440
Curators	120	$50,630

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 Sterlingeditor under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.