2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 historic preservation and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in historic preservation and conservation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their historic preservation and conservation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s historic preservation and conservation students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Historic Preservation & Conservation at The University of Texas at Austin

2

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#14 overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified doctorate’s historic preservation and conservation students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Full Columbia Historic Preservation & Conservation Report

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.