MA in Public History | Digital Humanities

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Impact the Future by Sharing the Past with Liberty’s MA in Public History – Digital Humanities

Are you ready to explore history through modern technology and invite public audiences to do the same? Conferring Liberty University’s Master of Arts (MA) in Public History – Digital Humanities can help you combine your passion for history with cutting-edge digital skills.

Our world communicates digitally on many levels and we live in an age where understanding the past can help us build an informed future. Because of this, increasing your digital expertise within the context of sharing history has the potential to help you reach vast audiences.

Through our public history MA with a focus in digital humanities, you’ll study how to use digital tools to analyze historical data, create digital archives, and share history in new, engaging ways. Our fully online courses provide you the opportunity to pursue graduate studies in digital humanities while remaining present in your job and community.

Our public history MA online with a specialization in digital humanities can help equip you to pursue positions in digital curation, public history, and more. Apply today and start making history come alive!

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Why Choose Liberty’s MA in Public History Program in Digital Humanities?

Choosing Liberty University’s MA in Public History – Digital Humanities offers you the flexibility of an online program with no set login times. Liberty University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), so you can be confident your graduate studies in digital humanities and public history meet high academic standards.

Our program gives you the chance to connect with experienced faculty as you develop your knowledge and research skills. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive a values-driven education rooted in a Christian worldview, preparing you to approach historical research and digital presentation with integrity and insight.

Through Liberty’s intentional combination of flexible learning, expert mentorship, and a Christian foundation, you have the opportunity to explore both traditional and digital public history. If you want to use technology to share history in meaningful, impactful ways, Liberty’s MA in Public History emphasizing digital humanities may be your next effective step.

What Will You Study in Our MA in Public History – Digital Humanities?

Digital humanities is an important aspect of the modern world of history telling. In our program’s online digital humanities courses, you can explore how technology is reshaping historical research and storytelling.

You’ll have the opportunity to study digital tools that can help you analyze historical data, preserve important records, and create interactive experiences that connect the past to the present. Other courses give you the chance to learn how to digitize documentaries and encode historical texts for use in digital archives.

Throughout the program, you can study ways to transform historical research into digital formats that engage modern audiences. Whether you aim to work in archives, museums, or digital media, our program seeks to provide opportunities that can develop your skills to preserve and present history in innovative ways.

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At Liberty University, a private Christian education is less expensive than you think. Over the last 10 years, Liberty University’s Online Program has only raised its standard tuition costs by less than 5% – and most of our online tuition rates rank in the top 35% for affordability for 2025 when compared to our leading online competitors.

Graduate Full Time	$580/Credit
Graduate Part Time	$645/Credit
Military Graduate	$290/Credit

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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Admission Requirements

Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 3.0 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.

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If you are sending in a preliminary transcript for acceptance, you must:

Be in your final term and planning to start your master’s degree after the last day of class for your bachelor’s degree.
Complete a Bachelor’s Self-Certification Form confirming your completion date. You may download the form from the Forms and Downloads page or contact an admissions counselor to submit the form on your behalf.
Submit an official/unofficial transcript to confirm that you are in your final term. The preliminary transcript must show a minimum of 105 completed credit hours.
If you are a current Liberty University student completing your undergraduate degree, you will need to submit a Degree/Certificate Completion Application.
Send in an additional, final official transcript with a conferral date on it by the end of your first semester of enrollment in the new master’s degree.

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Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:

Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
Cumulative GPA
A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
Degree and date conferred (if applicable)

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An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.

If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

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Frequently Asked Questions for Our Online Digital Humanities Master’s Degree

What is digital humanities?

Digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that combines traditional humanities disciplines, like history, literature, and art, with digital tools and methods. Professionals in this field use technology to analyze, interpret, and present humanities data in innovative ways.

In digital humanities, you can explore topics like digital preservation of historical records or data encoding in digital humanities. This field allows you to engage with historical documents, cultural artifacts, and literature through modern lenses, making research more interactive and accessible to a broader audience. It bridges the gap between the past and the digital future.

Is this program a master’s in digital humanities?

Liberty University’s online MA in Public History – Digital Humanities differs from an MA in Digital Humanities since the goal of our degree is to provide foundational public history knowledge while specializing your education with digital skills.

The unique value of our MA program in public history emphasizing digital humanities is the application of digital skills training and research to the understanding and presentation of history to public audiences.

Why pursue a master’s in public history with a focus on digital humanities?

If you’re passionate about studying the past and are in or are pursuing a career in education, museums, digital archives, or public history, a public history master’s can help you build expertise in those areas.

Liberty’s unique combination of public history and digital skills can help you prepare to pursue a large number of opportunities requiring foundational knowledge about history and telling history, as well as up-to-date understanding of digital analysis and presentation skills.

For online programs, accreditation is an important marker of high-quality, recognized academics. Liberty University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), so you can be confident your MA degree in public history and digital humanities meets high academic standards.

What can I do with graduate training in digital humanities?

With an MA in Public History – Digital Humanities, you can prepare for careers that blend history with technology. This could help you pursue opportunities in areas like digital archiving, museum curation, and cultural heritage management.

Unlike a regular public history MA, our program with a focus on digital humanities aims to help equip you to work with digital tools to preserve and present historical data in innovative ways. This kind of digital presentation can make history accessible to modern audiences.

With a degree focusing on the intersection between public history and digital humanities, you might pursue roles as a digital archivist or data visualization specialist or work in digital scholarship in libraries, museums, or cultural organizations.

This degree may also open doors to working with emerging technologies, like 3D modeling and geographic information systems (GIS), which are becoming more central to fields like archaeology and heritage conservation.

In our program, you can study how to take historical narratives and present them through interactive platforms, allowing you to engage a wider audience, whether you’re curating online exhibits or building digital history projects for educational or nonprofit sectors.

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