UNT maintains high visibility as a research university and sponsors more than 55 research and service centers and institutes. The campus is located in Denton, a city of 70,000 people, which offers the atmosphere of a small college town located about 35 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The graduate programs in the Department of History are designed to prepare students for careers in higher education, museum and archives management, public service and research. Thirty-seven faculty members work closely with about 150 graduate students in the M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs. Graduate classes normally include about eight to 12 students, enabling each student to receive close personal attention from the instructor.
Most classes fall into two categories, studies courses and seminars.
Studies courses generally include extensive reading assignments on the course topic and substantial writing assignments. In addition to formal classes, other opportunities for learning are readily available to graduate students. Several speakers of national and international stature address faculty and students on a variety of topics each year. An active organization of department graduate students provides useful information for students as they move through the various stages of their degree work. An Internet mailing list for the department's graduate students, organized by the students themselves, posts notices of deadlines, job openings, scholarship opportunities and other general information about graduate work in history.