Several elite colleges do not require students pursuing a history degree to take U.S. history courses, according to a new American Council of Trustees and Alumni report.

Only 23 of the 76 institutions ranked as "the best" by U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 rankings mandate that history majors take at least one course in U.S. history, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The chairman of the history department at Carleton College, a private liberal arts school in Minnesota, said that history majors are not required to take a single U.S. history course because the university is "committed to the idea that all histories are important and valuable in the cultivation of a robust civic consciousness."

He noted that many students had already received high scores on the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam.

History students at the University of Pennsylvania meanwhile only have to take a course in four of five geographic areas, leaving the opportunity that history students could avoid the United States, though spokesman Ron Ozio told the Wall Street Journal "that almost never occurs."

At the University of Texas at Austin, history students can partially complete their U.S. history requirement by taking a course called "Jews in American Entertainment."

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