2022 Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 416 people earned their degree in historic preservation, making the major the 294th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, historic preservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,775 and had an average of $36,085 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 26 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great historic preservation programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the historic preservation program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$22,886 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s historic preservation degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

UT Austin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Historic Preservation Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UT Austin are $22,886.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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