2025 Best Historic Preservation Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
65Historic Preservation Degrees Awarded
$45,739Avg Early-Career Salary
Historic Preservation degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #296 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Historic Preservation Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 65 degrees in historic preservation to qualified students.
Your choice of historic preservation school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Historic Preservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Historic Preservation Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Historic Preservation in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the historic preservation degree levels they offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Historic Preservation
It's hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a degree in historic preservation. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 13 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available. Historic Preservation degree recipients from Columbia University in the City of New York get an earnings boost of about $8,181 over the typical earnings of historic preservation majors.
Any student pursuing a degree in historic preservation needs to look into Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were about 19 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Delaware is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in historic preservation. UD is a very large public university located in the suburb of Newark. This university ranks 1st out of 3 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were roughly 18 historic preservation students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of historic preservation school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Historic Preservation School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
