Graduate Historic Preservation Degree Programs You will be re-directed to the complete NCPE chart listings. Key to abbreviations is below. Further information may be obtained by contacting particular institutions directly. Some programs offer various graduate, undergraduate and allied degrees, so please also check the other program lists.

Institution

Address

Contact

Email/ Web site

Areas of Emphasis

Degree

Students

Ball State University Historic Preservation Program	Dept. of Architecture Muncie, IN 47306-0350	James A. Glass (765) 285-1920	preservation@bsu.edu http://www.bsu.edu/cap/	Do, Ec, In/Ts, Ne, Pl, Pt, Pn, St, Va, La	MS HP	24
Boston University Pres. Studies Program	226 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215	Claire W. Dempsey (617) 353-2948	amnesp@bu.edu www.bu.edu/amnesp	Ac, Ah, Do, Pa, Rs	MA HP, MA/JD	24
Columbia University Historic Preservation Program	400 Avery Hall New York, NY 10027	Paul Byard or Janet W. Foster (212) 854 3080	jf2060@columbia.edu www.arch.columbia.edu/hp/	Ac, De, Hs, Pn,Ba,Rp, In,Pl, Th, Sm	MSc HP Joint degrees: HP/ MArch, HP/UP	60
Cornell University Grad. Program in HP Planning	106 W. Sibley Hall Ithaca, NY 14853	Michael Tomlan (607) 255-7261	mat4@cornell.edu www.crp.cornell.edu/degree/hpp.htm	Ad, Bt, Do, Fw, Hs, Pl, Pn, Rs, Th	MA, PhD HP Planning	20
Eastern Michigan University Historic Preservation Program	235 Strong Hall Ypsilanti, MI 48197	Ted J. Ligibel (734) 487-0232	tligibel@emich.edu www.emich.edu/public/geo/HP/HP.html	Bt, Cl, Cm, Fw, Ge, In, Ip, Pa, Pn, To	MS HP Pres. Certificate	85
Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program	Dept. of History PO Box 4117 Atlanta, GA 30302	Richard Laub (404) 463-9206	hisrel@langate.gsu.edu www.gsu.edu/heritagepr	Ah,Av, Bt, Cm, Cr, Hs, In, Mu, Pn, Pu, and Sa	MHP	40
Goucher College Historic Preservation Program	1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, MD 21204	Richard Wagner (410) 337-6200	rwagner@goucher.edu www.goucher.edu/	Do, Ec, Fw, Hp, Pa, Ph, Pt, Ur, Ts	MA HP Ltd. residency	45
Middle Tennessee State University Public History/ Preservation	History Dept. Box 23 Murfreesboro, TN 37132	Lorne McWatters (615) 898-5805	dmcwatte@mtsu.edu www.mtsu.edu/~pubhist/	Ah, Cl, Cr, En, Fw, He, Hp, Ih, Mc, Mu, Pa, Pn, Pu	MA HP MA History/Public History PhD Public History	50
Northwestern State University Heritage Resources Program	School of Social Sciences 301 Kyser Hall Natchitoches, LA 71457	ElizaBeth Guin (318) 357-6195	http://www.nsula.edu/heritageresources/ NCPE membership pending review	Ho, Hi, Ae, Ge, Sm, Pa, Hp, In, Cr, An, Be	MA HR	24
Pratt Institute Historic Preservation	144 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011-2700	Eric W. Allison (718) 399-4314 or Ned Kaufman (212) 923-2377	eallison@pratt.edu http://www.pratt.edu/arch/hpres/	Ad, Ar, Cl, Ec, Ne, Pn, Pp, Th, Ur	MS HP	23
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, Building Conservation	Greene Building 110 8th street Troy, NY 12180	Fredrick Cawley or Kathleen O'Connor (518) 276-3986	oconnk2@rpi.edu http://www.arch.rpi.edu/grad_ms_bld.htm		MS Building Conservation
Savannah College of Art & Design Historic Pres. Dept.	P.O. Box 3146 Savannah, GA 31402	Crystal Weaver (912) 525-6927	cweaver@scad.edu www.scad.edu/hp	Ac, Ba, Bt, Cl, Cm, Ec, Ho, La, Pn, Pa	MA HP BFA HP MFA HP Online MA HP Online Grad Cert	160
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Historic Pres. Pgm.	37 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60603	Vincent Michael (312) 629-6500	vmichael@artic.edu www.artic.edu/saic/programs/	Ad, Ah, Do, Ec, Ir, Sa, Sm, Ts	MS HP	30
Tulane University School of Architecture	New Orleans, LA 70118-5671	Eugene D. Cizek (504) 865-5389	ecizek@tulane.edu www.tulane.edu	Ac, Ar, Cm, Fw, Hp, Ir, Ne, Pn, Sa	Cert HP MPS PhD HP	15
University of Georgia Grad. Studies in Hist. Pres.	609 Caldwell Hall Athens, GA 30602	John C. Waters (706) 542-4706	jcwaters@uga.edu www.sed.uga.edu	Ad, Bt, Do, Ec, En, La, Pl, Pn, Ts/In	MHP, Accelerated MHP, JD/MHP, Certificate	40
University of Kentucky Department of Historic Preservation	College of Design Lexington, KY 40506-0041	Clyde Carpenter (859) 257-7628	arc104@uky.edu www.uky.edu/Design/historicpreservation.htm	Cl, De, Hs	MHP
University of Maryland Graduate Program in Historic Preservation	School of Architecture College Park, MD 20742	Donald Linebaugh (301) 405-6309	dwline@umd.edu www.arch.umd.edu	Ec, Ph, Pl, Pn, Rp, Rs, Sm, Sp, Ur	MHP Graduate Certificate	20
University of Oregon Historic Preservation Program	AAA Dean's Office Eugene, OR 97403	Kingston Wm. Heath (541) 346-2115	kwheath@uoregon.edu www.uoregon.edu/~histpres/	Ad, Ah, Ba, Bt, Do, Ho, Ip, Sp,Rs, Va, Ts/In	MS HP	20
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Historic Preservation	115 Meyerson Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6311	Frank Matero (215) 898-3169	hyndman@design.upenn.edu www.upenn.edu/gsfa/his_pres/index.htm	Ac, Cl, De, Sm, Pn, Ts/In, Sa-Sp	MS HP Cert HP Adv Cert Ac Joint certificates and Masters degrees with Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City & Regional Planning	50
University of New Mexico Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation and Regionalism	MSC04 2530, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001	Chris Wilson (505) 277-2903	chwilson@unm.edu NCPE membership pending review	NCPE membership pending review
University of Southern California Historic Preservation Program	School of Architecture 204 Watt Hall Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291	Douglas Noble (213) 740-4589	dnoble@usc.edu arch.usc.edu/	Ac, Ar, Bt, Pl, La, Rs, Ts, Ba, Do, Pn, Sm	MHP	25+
University of Texas Historic Preservation Program	Goldsmith Hall Austin, TX 78712-1160	Christopher Long (512) 232-4084	chrlong@mail.utexas.edu web.austin.utexas.edu/architecture/academic/main.html	Ah, Ar, Bt, De, Do, Pn, Pl, La, Sm	MS HP, PhD, MS CRP, MArch, Cert HP	25
University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program	207 Wheeler House 133 S. Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05405	Thomas Visser (802) 656-3180	thomas.visser@uvm.edu www.uvm.edu/histpres	Ac, Ba, Ad, Cm, Do, Ec, Le, Pl, Ts/In	MS HP	24
Ursuline College Historic Preservation Program	2550 Lander Rd. Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124	Leslie Piña (440) 646-8135	lpina@ursuline.edu www.ursuline.edu/acadaff/historic_pres.htm	Ah, De, Do, Hp, Ir, Md, Pl, Pn, Rs, Sp, Ts	BA HP Masters in HP (pending NCPE review)	16

Areas of Emphasis Abbreviations
Ac	Architectural conservation	Ad	Advocacy	Ae	Archeology	Ah	Architectural history	An	Anthropology
Ar	Architecture	Av	Archives	Ba	Building analysis	Bc	Building crafts training	Be	Built environment
Bt	Building tech. / materials	Cl	Cultural landscapes	Cm	Community based projects	Cr	Cultural resource mgt.	Cs	Communication systems
Ct	Construction technology	De	Design	Do	Documentation	Ec	Econ. dev./ Adaptive reuse	En	Environmental hist./ conservation
Fw	Fieldwork	Fo	Folk studies/ Folklore	Ge	Geography	He	Heritage education	Hp	Historic preservation
Ho	Hands-on techniques	Hs	History	Ih	Industrial heritage	In	Internship	Ip	Interpretation
Ir	Interiors	La	Landscapes	Le	Leadership	Lo	Local history	Mc	Material culture
Md	Measured drawings	Mu	Museum curatorship/ mgt.	Ne	Neighborhoods	Pa	Pres. admin. / mgt.	Ph	Preservation philosophy
Pl	Preservation law	Pu	Public history	Pn	Preservation planning	Pp	Public Policy	Pt	Preservation technology
Rp	Recent past	Rs	Research	Sa	Study abroad	Sm	Site management	Sp	Summer program
St	Small towns	Su	Surveys	Va	Vernacular architecture	Ur	Urban studies or planning	Th	Theory
To	Tourism	Ts	Thesis

Allied Graduate Degree Historic Preservation and Certificate Programs

Undergraduate Historic Preservation Degree Programs

Associated Institutions

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Please contact Thomas Visser to update this information or to make corrections to this chart of NCPE member institutions.
Last updated November 2, 2006

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