2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Historic Preservation is the 296th most popular major in the country with 416 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, historic preservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,439 and had an average of $22,124 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 149 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,098 and $22,124 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in historic preservation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their historic preservation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the Southeast Region

1

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

$24,160 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,441 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mary Washington landed the #1 spot on the list. UMW is a small school located in Fredericksburg, Virginia that handed out 36 bachelors’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Historic Preservation at UMW

2

College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

$30,387 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,807 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Charleston landed the #2 spot on the list. C of C is located in Charleston, South Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 29 bachelors’s historic preservation degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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 full report on Historic Preservation at College of Charleston

3

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region list. Savannah College of Art and Design is a private not-for-profit institution located in Savannah, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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 Savannah College of Art and Design Historic Preservation Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation

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.