2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in New York

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New York, there were 29 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,313 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,893 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in New York

1

Pratt Institute - Main
Brooklyn, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Pratt Institute - Main landed the #1 spot on the list. Pratt Institute - Main is a medium-sized school located in Brooklyn, New York that handed out 5 masters’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Pratt Institute - Main Historic Preservation Report

2

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

#2 overall quality in New York

$50,313 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York. Columbia University in the City of New York is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 13 masters’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Historic Preservation at Columbia University in the City of New York

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#1 overall quality in New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation Major in New York list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s historic preservation students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Historic Preservation at Cornell

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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.