2023 Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Oregon, there were 5 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Historic Preservation in Oregon

1

Clatsop Community College
Astoria, Oregon

$32,232 Average Early-Career Earnings

$17,045 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Clatsop Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Clatsop Community College is a small school located in Astoria, Oregon that handed out 2 ’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Historic Preservation at Clatsop Community College

2

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

#1 overall quality in Oregon

$37,110 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,220 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #2 spot on the list. UO is a large public school situated in Eugene, Oregon. It awarded 3 ’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 University of Oregon

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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

• *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.