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Maryville University Bachelor of Arts in History online

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Maryville University Bachelor of Arts in History online

Learn to contextualize and analyze history, from the local to the global. This online degree will help you deepen your understanding of historical events, societies, and cultures, within the context of today's society. Pursue a career across industries in various roles, including archives director, records manager, and communications specialist.

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Flexible dates

Fall, Spring, Summer

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About the program

  • Transfer credits to complete your degree sooner:

    Graduate faster if you previously earned college credits. Maryville considers all transfer credits, even if you earned them years ago.

  • Gain valuable hands-on career experience:

    Engage in experiential learning opportunities, including a local history seminar and an internship relevant to your goals.

  • Aligns to industry standards:

    Follow a curriculum that adheres to the American Historical Association’s History Discipline Core, which emphasizes history as a discipline, but also as an inquiry into what it means to be human, and as a public service.

Curriculum

An online history degree from Maryville University prepares students for any number of careers in public, private, or nonprofit organizations. The industry-focused curriculum is designed to help you form an in-depth understanding of how and why events in the past occurred, and how those events correlate to current world events.

  • Gain essential career skills that you can apply across industries:

    Courses will teach students how to leverage the tools and techniques that modern history professionals use to research, communicate, analyze, and educate on topics past and present. 

  • Engage with a flexible curriculum that aligns to your career interests:

    Explore a range of relevant course topics, from historical methods to world history, and choose courses that align with your personal and professional goals and interests.

  • Hone your critical thinking skills:

    Build and strengthen critical thinking abilities so you can develop a heightened awareness of the impact past events have on modern times. Use your newly learned skills across a variety of industries, including academia, galleries, and museums, as well as nonprofits, government agencies, and public service.

Learner testimonials

If you start, finish it. Pursue your dreams to the end. Maryville offers a lot of help; they will walk with you from beginning to end.

Junah Castil, Class of 2022

I ended up being really happy that I chose Maryville. It’s online, and the price was comparable to all the surrounding universities, so it ended up being a good choice. Online learning is everything I expected it to be. It was so flexible with my work and family life that it’s just been a fairly smooth sail.

Danielle Van Komen, Class of 2019

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Get a head start on your master’s with Early Access

Maryville’s Early Access program allows you to earn up to 12 credits toward your master’s degree as you complete the required coursework for your undergraduate degree. Once you’ve completed at least 90 credit hours or more of your bachelor’s degree (with a GPA of 3.25 or higher), you may be eligible to get a head start on your master’s degree. Graduate-level Early Access courses are billed at the undergraduate tuition rate — so you can save time and money. Contact an admissions advisor to find out more.