2022 Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Historic Preservation is the 294th most popular major in the country with 416 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Southeast region, there were 166 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,775 and $33,438 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 historic preservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in historic preservation. 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

College of Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$19,000 Average Net Price

$34,420 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Charleston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. C of C is a public institution located in Charleston, South Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at C of C, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Historic Preservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $19,000 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Historic Preservation students with aid per year to attend C of C.

Read more about Historic Preservation at College of Charleston

#2

Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$43,641 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Historic Preservation Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Savannah, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s historic preservation students in 2019-2020.

SCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Historic Preservation Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $43,641 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Historic Preservation students with aid per year to attend Savannah College of Art and Design.

Full SCAD Historic Preservation Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Historic Preservation (With Aid)

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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