Master of Arts in History - South Asian History

South Asian history, a distinguished field of study at UW-Madison since the late 1950s, encompasses India and the Indian Ocean area. Our faculty specialize in the medieval, early modern, and modern eras with thematic emphasis on the Indo-Islamic world and on the legal history of South Asia.

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a comparable degree from an international institution is required. International applicants must have a degree comparable to a regionally accredited U.S. bachelor’s degree. You must have completed your undergraduate degree, or similar, before starting graduate school. A minimum undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 on the equivalent of the last 60 credit hours (approximately two years of work) or a master’s degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 is required. The Graduate School will take into consideration different grade scales from institutions that do not have 4.00 scales (e.g., institutions outside the United States of America).