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2023 Best Value History Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,065 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,062 Avg Salary

Finding the Best History School for You

History is the #27 most popular major in Washington with 32 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

The Best Value History Schools in Washington ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Washington to see which 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 Schools in Washington

Check out the history programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality in History

$12,417 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Washington State University the best value school in Washington for history students. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

Wazzu undergraduate students pay an average of $12,417 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full History at Washington State University Report

$8,703 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Western Washington University is a great value for history students. WWU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Bellingham.

WWU undergraduate students pay an average of $8,703 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full History at Western Washington University Report

$12,076 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value History Schools in Washington list. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UW Seattle are $12,076 a year.

UW Seattle also took the #4 spot in our Best History Schools in Washington rankings.

Read full report on History at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

Best Value History Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value History Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 330
Oregon 14
Nevada 10
Hawaii 3

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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 3 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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