2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

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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 New England region, there were 46 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in historic preservation. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in historic preservation.

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Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the New England Region

1

Salve Regina University
Newport, Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Salve Regina University landed the #1 spot on the list. Salve Regina is located in Newport, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s historic preservation degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Historic Preservation at Salve Regina University

2

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Bristol, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full RWU Historic Preservation Report

• Most Popular 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.