The
American Historical Association has ranked SFSU's
History Department fourth in the nation for sending master's degree
students on to doctoral programs. According
to an article in the January issue of Perspectives, the association's
news magazine, 39
students in SFSU's M.A. program in history went on to Ph.D. programs
between 1981 and 2001,
trailing only Columbia
University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University
of Chicago, which had just three more students than SFSU.