2025 Best Museology/Museum Studies Schools in Massachusetts

A degree in museology/museum studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #561 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for museology/museum studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 105 degrees in museology/museum studies to qualified students.

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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 Museology/Museum Studies Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Museology/Museum Studies in Massachusetts

The schools below may not offer all types of museology/museum studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Massachusetts Schools in Museology/Museum Studies

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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

85 Museology/Museum Studies Degrees Awarded

Harvard University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in museology/museum studies. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.More information about a degree in museology/museum studies from Harvard University

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Tufts University
Medford, MA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

25.0% Growth in Graduates

Tufts University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in museology/museum studies. Tufts is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford.More information about a degree in museology/museum studies from Tufts University

Best Museology/Museum Studies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Museology/Museum Studies Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Rhode Island	436	0
Vermont	352	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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.