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2023 Best Value History Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$34,090 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,296 Avg Salary

Finding the Best History Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 132 degrees and certificates were awarded to history students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #26 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value History Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for history students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value History Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Value History Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in History

#1

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Our 2023 rankings named University of Pennsylvania the best value school in Pennsylvania for history students working on their doctor’s degree. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UPenn are $42,932 a year.

UPenn did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best History Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list.

Full History at University of Pennsylvania Report

Out of the 2 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

Pitt graduate students pay an average of $25,248 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value History Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value History Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 477
Maryland 55
New Jersey 88
District of Columbia 73
Delaware 10

History Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
History 4,391

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Abraham Ortelius.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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