2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 416 people earned their degree in historic preservation, making the major the 296th most popular in the United States. 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 72 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,313 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in historic preservation. That schools that top this list have a program in historic preservation in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree historic preservation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This large school is located in Newark, Delaware, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 UD

2

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#6 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #2 spot on the list. Columbia is located in New York, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 doctorate’s historic preservation degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Historic Preservation at Columbia

• Most Focused Doctor’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.