2024 Best Historic Preservation Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
72Historic Preservation Degrees Awarded
$50,313Avg Early-Career Salary
Historic Preservation degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #296 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of historic preservation. Combined, these schools handed out 72 degrees in historic preservation to qualified students.
Your choice of historic preservation school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Historic Preservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Historic Preservation Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Historic Preservation in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the historic preservation degree levels they offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Historic Preservation
It is hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a degree in historic preservation. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were about 13 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, historic preservation degree recipients usually make about $50,313 in the first five years of their career.
Every student who is interested in historic preservation has to look into Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Baltimore. This university ranks 1st out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 10 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year.
University of Delaware is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in historic preservation. UD is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Newark. This university ranks 1st out of 4 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were approximately 19 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of historic preservation school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Historic Preservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
