2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 331 people earned their degree in historic preservation and conservation, making the major the 750th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 149 historic preservation and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 historic preservation and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in historic preservation and conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in historic preservation and conservation.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Southeast Region

1

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mary Washington landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, this small public school handed out 36 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s historic preservation and conservation students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Historic Preservation & Conservation at University of Mary Washington

2

College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Charleston landed the #2 spot on the list. C of C is a public institution located in Charleston, South Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Historic Preservation & Conservation at College of Charleston

3

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Southeast Region. Savannah College of Art and Design is a private not-for-profit institution located in Savannah, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.