History at Yale University

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

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 100 students received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale.

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

Yale History Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in History
• Master’s Degree in History
• Doctorate Degree in History

Yale History Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the history progam at Yale compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The history major at Yale 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
	1
	1
Best History Schools	5

In 2021, 55 students received their master’s degree in history from Yale. This makes it the #8 most popular school for history master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 10 students who received their doctoral degrees in history, making the school the #22 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

How Much Do History Graduates from Yale Make?

The median salary of history students who receive their bachelor's degree at Yale is $52,357. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 81% higher than the national average of $28,881 for all history bachelor's degree recipients.

History Student Demographics at Yale

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

Yale History Bachelor’s Program

Of the 100 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in history from Yale in 2021, 53% were men and 47% were women. The typical history bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Yale since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in history at Yale are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Yale University with a bachelor's in history.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	54
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Yale History Master’s Program

The history program at Yale awarded 55 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 47% of these degrees went to men with the other 53% going to women.

In the history master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 31% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Yale University with a master's in history.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	25
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Yale also has a doctoral program available in history. In 2021, 10 students 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 CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
High School Teachers	15,410	$76,980
Managers	6,590	$129,730
History Professors	320	$83,870
Museum Technicians and Conservators	290	$55,340
Curators	230	$67,430

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 Jdbrandt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.