2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 291 people earned their degree in historic preservation & conservation, making the major the 750th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 20 historic preservation & conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 historic preservation & conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in historic preservation & conservation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in historic preservation & conservation.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree historic preservation and conservation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oregon. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Oregon is a large public school situated in Eugene, Oregon. It awarded 8 masters’s historic preservation and conservation degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Historic Preservation & Conservation at University of Oregon

2

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Historic Preservation and Conservation Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s historic preservation and conservation students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full USC Historic Preservation & Conservation Report

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.