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

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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 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in historic preservation. To top this list, a school must have a successful historic preservation program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mary Washington landed the #1 spot on the list. Fredericksburg, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s historic preservation degrees to 36 students 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 University of Mary Washington

2

College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

$30,387 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,807 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Charleston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Charleston, South Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s historic preservation degrees to 29 students in 2020-2021.

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 more about Historic Preservation at College of Charleston

3

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Savannah, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s historic preservation students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Savannah College of Art and Design 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.