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2022 Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
12 Degrees Awarded
$48,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master's in California For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 416 people earned their degree in historic preservation, making the major the 294th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, historic preservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,775 and had an average of $36,085 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 15 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent historic preservation programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the historic preservation program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation (Income $48-$75k) in California

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. USC is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 6 masters’s historic preservation degrees in 2019-2020.

USC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Historic Preservation Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at USC are $48,715.

Full University of Southern California Historic Preservation Report

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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