2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 19 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 $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in historic preservation and conservation. That schools that top this list have a program in historic preservation and conservation in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree historic preservation and conservation students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the New England Region

1

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Vermont landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 5 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Vermont Historic Preservation & Conservation Report

2

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region list. Boston U is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 6 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Boston U Historic Preservation & Conservation Report

3

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Roger Williams University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region list. Located in Bristol, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s historic preservation and conservation students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

Read more about Historic Preservation & Conservation at RWU

• 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.