You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in museum studies. It is ranked #275 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for museum studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 105 degrees in museum studies to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Museum Studies Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of museum studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in museum studies needs to look into Harvard University. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Cambridge.
Museum Studies degree recipients from Harvard University get an earnings boost of approximately $7,391 above the average income of museum studies graduates.
Tufts University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in museum studies. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Medford.
Graduates who receive their degree from the museum studies program earn around $31,434 in the first couple years of working.
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).
