2025 Best Museum Studies Schools in the New England Region

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Museum Studies Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 106 degrees in museum studies to qualified students.

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Museum Studies Rankings by Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Museum Studies Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Museum Studies in the New England Region

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the museum studies degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top New England Region Schools in Museum Studies

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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

85 Museum Studies Degrees Awarded

$44,792 Median Starting Salary

Harvard University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in museum studies. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Cambridge.

Those museum studies students who get their degree from Harvard University make $7,391 more than the typical museum studies grad.

More information about a degree in museum studies from Harvard University

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Tufts University
Medford, MA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

25.0% Growth in Graduates

$31,434 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in museum studies needs to look into Tufts University. Tufts is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Medford.

Soon after graduation, museum studies degree recipients usually earn an average of $31,434 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a degree in museum studies from Tufts University

Best Museum Studies Colleges by State

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Museum Studies Related Rankings by Major

One of 51 majors within the Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies area of study, Museum Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.