The study of history provides a strong foundation for a broad variety of careers. By exploring continuity and change, history students learn to understand their own cultures, communities, and themselves. Training in history enhances the ability to recognize patterns in voluminous data, training the mind to think on many levels and to deal with partial evidence and ambiguity. By supporting comparisons and connections, the study of history prepares students to test new solutions against past experiences. These are skills valued by employers not just in the field itself, but across careers.

What do these people all have in common?

• John F. Kennedy 

• Sacha Baron Cohen 

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 

• Lauryn Hill 

• Julia Child 

They're all history majors — the major with no limits.

UVM History majors have gone on to careers in: 

• Advertising 

• Banking & finance 

• Community development 

• Curation/museums 

• Education 

• Government relations and public administration 

• Historic preservation 

• Journalism 

• Law 

• Library science 

• Market research 

• Medicine 

• Publishing 

• Public relations/Corporate communications 

• Social work 

• Urban planning and city management 

• Writing & editing