2023 Most Popular Colleges for Historic Preservation in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in Massachusetts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Massachusetts, there were 16 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in Massachusetts” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts historic preservation students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Historic Preservation in Massachusetts

1

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 overall quality in Massachusetts

$78,371 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,125 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in Massachusetts. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 10 ’s historic preservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Historic Preservation at Harvard

2

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#5 overall quality in Massachusetts

$55,473 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,217 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Historic Preservation Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified ’s historic preservation students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Boston U Historic Preservation Report

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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.