Indianapolis, IN (population: 803,930) has five history schools within its city limits. Butler University, the highest ranked school in the city with a history program, has a total student population of 4,505. It is the 172nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 4th highest in the state of Indiana (#1 is Indiana University-Bloomington). To learn more about history programs in Indianapolis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of history professors at Butler University such as Ryan Anderson, Bruce Bigelow, Margaret Brabant, John Cornell, Kate Costello, and Vivian Deno.
History students from Indianapolis schools who go on to become historians, art history teachers, professor of histories, art history professors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 21,810 people working as history teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $69,280. Also, Museum technicians and conservators make on average $41,330 per year and there are about 10,170 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Indianapolis-Carmel area alone, there are 90 employed museum technicians and conservators earning an average salary of $35,170. History teachers in this area earn $66,430/yr and there are 70 employed.
Indianapolis lies in Marion county, which is one of the 39 counties in Indiana. Overall, the Indianapolis-Carmel area has 870,660 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.5% unemployment rate, $20.15/hr average worker wage, and a $41,900 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.075 out of every 1000 jobs in Indianapolis are held by history teachers, and 0.104/1000 are held by museum technicians and conservators.
Of the 5 history schools in Indianapolis, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Butler University comes out as the most expensive ($26,565/yr) for history students, with Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis as the lowest, reported at only $12,394/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Indianapolis |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 11.3 miles |
| Carmel | IN | 71,355 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.3 miles |
| Fishers | IN | 75,408 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.6 miles |
| Noblesville | IN | 43,991 | 1 | 25.8098 | 4 | 20.4 miles |
| Anderson | IN | 57,207 | 4 | 25.3197 | 163 | 32.5 miles |
| Greencastle | IN | - | 1 | 73.3275 | 64 | 39.2 miles |
| Crawfordsville | IN | - | 1 | 65.7607 | 29 | 42.5 miles |
| Kokomo | IN | 45,373 | 3 | 27.6981 | 91 | 48.4 miles |
| Muncie | IN | 64,234 | 3 | 31.2358 | 217 | 49.7 miles |
| West Lafayette | IN | - | 1 | 78.6553 | 122 | 60.0 miles |
| Terre Haute | IN | 60,269 | 5 | 28.5376 | 204 | 68.9 miles |
| Oxford | OH | - | 1 | 41.8383 | 150 | 77.2 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 82.1 miles |
| North Manchester | IN | - | 1 | 55.0629 | 70 | 86.8 miles |
| Middletown | OH | 51,674 | 7 | 25.6111 | 228 | 96.6 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 97.7 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 98.1 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 98.5 miles |