Bachelor in History (Bachelor's)

Tuition is Tuition for the 2024-2025 academic year is $53,800 per year..

Graduates with a history degree from Eckerd College are qualified to pursue careers in research, education, public service, and cultural institutions. The programme emphasizes independent study and close mentorship with faculty from the first year. Students explore diverse themes such as environmental history, race and gender, and political history through elective courses. They engage in hands-on research projects and internships that connect historical inquiry with real-world applications.

Focus areas include environmental history, cultural history, political/military history, race and gender, American environmental history, technology and the automobile.

The programme requires a total of 36 credits, distributed across core courses, elective courses, and upper-division seminars. Students complete a senior capstone project and may pursue independent study with faculty.

Graduates enter roles such as historical researcher, museum curator, journalist, teacher, and intelligence analyst.

Applicants must submit high school transcripts, standardized test scores if required, and a personal statement. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is recommended. International students must provide English proficiency scores.

The programme totals about 36 credit hours. on-campus, full-time, typically four years. For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 79% of applicants.

Eckerd College is a liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, with academic pathways that lead graduates into medicine, law, marine science and other fields. Students have worked with organizations including NASA, NOAA, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and Raymond James Financial. Students have also co-authored research on gopher tortoises in scientific journals. Ninety percent of graduates earn their degree in four years or fewer, and 94% are employed or pursuing advanced degrees within one year of graduation.

The college’s waterfront campus is home to 1,800 students from across the United States and around the world. St. Petersburg sits on Florida’s Gulf Coast, with seven beaches nearby and an average year-round temperature of 75 degrees. Some residence halls have ocean views, and most are pet-friendly. The city also offers access to technology jobs and a strong work-life balance.

International students can ease into college through Autumn Term, a three-week orientation that introduces college life and helps students plan their studies. Each student receives support from a personal faculty mentor. Eckerd offers faculty-led study abroad programmes, a semester at its study centre in London and about 300 destinations each year, giving students several ways to add international experience to their degree.