2025 Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Great Lakes Region

1 College in the Great Lakes Region

28 Historic Preservation and Conservation Degrees Awarded

Historic Preservation & Conservation is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #750 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.

There was only one school in the Great Lakes Region to review for the 2025 Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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Best Overall Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools List

Historic Preservation & Conservation Rankings by Degree Level

Master's Degrees in Historic Preservation and Conservation

The historic preservation and conservation school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Great Lakes Region. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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Best Schools for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Great Lakes 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 historic preservation and conservation degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Historic Preservation and Conservation

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Eastern Michigan University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in historic preservation & conservation. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Ypsilanti.More information about a degree in historic preservation & conservation from Eastern Michigan University

Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Colleges by State

Explore the best historic preservation & conservation schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	939	6
Michigan	915	12
Indiana	737	1

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Historic Preservation & Conservation is one of 2 different types of Historic Preservation programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Historic Preservation and Conservation

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Cultural Resource Management & Policy Analysis	2

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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).

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