The Master in History (MHIS) is part of the teaching offer of the Research and Teaching Program in History of El Colegio de San Luis AC (COLSAN). It was created in 1997, it is then the first postgraduate course offered by the Institution, which is a Public Research Center belonging to the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Since 2005, the MHIS belongs to the National Quality Postgraduate Program (PNPC), where it is currently registered as a Consolidated Level Program, recognition ratified in 2018.

The MHI is a BIENNIAL program that is designed to develop among its graduates a “global” understanding of historical processes; While other programs limit their field of study to the borders of the national state, our master's degree seeks to familiarize students with Mexican historiography and with others different from it. Likewise, it seeks to highlight the parallels and processes common to all regions, so that political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena –with all their changes and permanence– can be analyzed in the light of their Spatio-temporal context. Finally, the program offers elementary training in the tools and methods of the historian, which are diverse and complementary to those of the other social sciences. This master's degree is highly competitive insofar as it addresses a novel topic from multiple approaches and, at the same time, reinforces the general academic proposal of the CIDE (oriented towards economics, law, political science, international relations, and the public administration).