The top 10 universities in history major are: Beijing Normal University (ranking 1), Fudan University (ranking second), Peking University (ranking third), Nanjing University (ranking fourth), China Renmin University (ranking fifth), Nankai University (ranking sixth), Huazhong Normal University (ranking seventh) and Zhongshan.
History major belongs to humanities, which has the characteristics of strong foundation and wide coverage. The main disciplines of history are China history, world history and archaeology, which are closely related to other humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, and are also the basis of all social sciences. The direction of postgraduate entrance examination for history majors is similar, such as Chinese minority history, Marxist theory, law (illegal study) and subject teaching (history).