2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Far Western US Region

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

Historic Preservation & Conservation is the 750th most popular major in the country with 331 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 14 historic preservation and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 historic preservation and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in historic preservation and conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in historic preservation and conservation.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree historic preservation and conservation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oregon. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region list. UO is a large school located in Eugene, Oregon that handed out 3 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 University of Oregon

2

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #2 spot on the list. USC is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Historic Preservation & Conservation at USC

• Most Focused Master’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.