2025 Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
153Historic Preservation and Conservation Degrees Awarded
When it comes to popularity, historic preservation & conservation sits in the middle of the road, ranking #750 out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 153 degrees in historic preservation & conservation to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Historic Preservation & Conservation School
The historic preservation and conservation program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Historic Preservation & Conservation rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for historic preservation & conservation schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Historic Preservation & Conservation Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Historic Preservation & Conservation Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Historic Preservation & Conservation in the Southeast 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 and conservation degree levels they offer.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Historic Preservation and Conservation
College of Charleston is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in historic preservation & conservation. C of C is a large public college located in the midsize city of Charleston. This college ranks 6th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were about 29 historic preservation & conservation students who graduated with this degree at C of C in the most recent year we have data available.
Tulane University of Louisiana is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in historic preservation & conservation. Located in the city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #95 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Tulane is a great university overall.
There were roughly 6 historic preservation & conservation students who graduated with this degree at Tulane in the most recent data year.
31Historic Preservation and Conservation Degrees Awarded
University of Mary Washington is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in historic preservation & conservation. Located in the midsize suburb of Fredericksburg, UMW is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 19th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 31 historic preservation & conservation students who graduated with this degree at UMW 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).
The historic preservation and conservation program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Historic Preservation & Conservation rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for historic preservation & conservation schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
