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History Schools in Houston

Houston, TX (population: 2,307,883) has seven history schools within its city limits. Rice University, the highest ranked school in the city with a history program, has a total student population of 5,576. It is the 28th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Texas. To learn more about history programs in Houston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of history professors at Rice University such as Eric Adler, Alexander Byrd, Stephanie Camp, Rebecca Goetz, Thomas Haskell, and Michael Maas.

History students from Houston 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 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 100 employed museum technicians and conservators earning an average salary of $44,460. History teachers in this area earn $79,490/yr and there are 370 employed.

Houston lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.146 out of every 1000 jobs in Houston are held by history teachers, and 0.040/1000 are held by museum technicians and conservators.

Of the 7 history schools in Houston, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of St Thomas comes out as the most expensive ($18,514/yr) for history students, with Texas Southern University as the lowest, reported at only $7,672/yr.

History Programs in Houston

Rice University

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD

University of St Thomas

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Houston Baptist University

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Texas Southern University

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

University of Houston

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Public/Applied History and Archival Administration
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Music History, Literature, and Theory
  

  Levels offered: Masters

University of Houston-Downtown

• History
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• History, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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