Brandeis University's Department of History offers students a comprehensive education in the study of the past on the graduate level (M.A. and Ph.D.).  Its Ph.D. program has consistently received high marks in national surveys and rankings, and can boast an outstanding placement record.

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in history train students to research, write, and teach history at the highest level.  The program's broad and rigorous training equips students to make a contribution beyond the academy; students are encouraged to tackle problems of large and urgent importance, not only to other scholars, but to wider civic dialogues that require and understanding of the past.  Brandeis faculty members prepare future historians for the excitement and challenges of a career devoted to exploring and explaining the past.  A flexible program of study allows students to work closely with the faculty.

Despite its relatively small size, Brandeis' Department of History offers students a comprehensive, flexible, varied, and vibrant curriculum, which includes dynamic and interdisciplinary "Themataic Seminars," which cross national borders to explore such themes as Film and History, the Atlantic World, Diaspora adn Decolonization, or the Rise of the Modern State. Brandeis' History Department takes pride in having among its faculty members and graduate program alumni several award-winning historians.  It thus combines the best of both worlds: the intimacy of a small liberal-arts colelge department and the intellectual strength of a major research institution.