2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in historic preservation and conservation. To top this list, a school must have a successful historic preservation and conservation program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s

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

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

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s list. Boston University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 6 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Historic Preservation & Conservation at Boston University

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s list. University of Vermont is a fairly large public school situated in Burlington, Vermont. 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%.

Read more about Historic Preservation & Conservation at University of Vermont

3

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. This small school is located in Bristol, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Historic Preservation & Conservation at RWU

• Most Popular 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.