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Enhance community by preserving cultural memory.
Close up of iron gate
Students tour Playhouse Square theaters
Students work on brick restoration
Students listen to tour guide at Cleveland Art Museum
Student explores Playhouse Square theater.
Student poses with new construction during internship
Students examine architectural elements of building
Students pose with professor at historic landmark
Student examine blueprints
Class held at a nearby historic site
Students pose together outside of Severence Hall, where the Cleveland Orchestra performs.
Student poses at construction site during internship
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Pursue your historic preservation career at the only undergraduate program in Ohio, and one of the few nationwide.
In this hands-on, interdisciplinary historic preservation degree program, you’ll make sustainable and unique contributions to your world by preserving cultural memory and its lessons. Historic preservation supports and enhances the community by protecting and improving districts, neighborhoods, structures, works of art and other significant elements of material culture and cultural memory.
You'll put your knowledge into practice both in and out of the classroom, working with the heritage buildings and sites of Northeast Ohio to prepare plans for the preservation, redevelopment, and adaptive reuse of those sites. While you're at it, you may help create the first Digital Ohio Women's History Trail, detailing what you've learned about unsung Ohio women. You’ll also practice critical real-world skills like grant writing and historical record documentation to prepare you for historic preservation internship opportunities across the country.
The National Council on Preservation Education credentials our Historic Preservation degree program for the strength of its curriculum and for fully meeting its standards for preservation education degrees.
Earn your bachelor’s and master’s in five years through our Historic Preservation Bridge Program. You'll take 18 credit hours of Bridge courses as an undergraduate, for a smooth transition. Read about our master's program here.
Historic preservation is one of the fastest growing fields in applied history. As a professional preservationist, you will:
Preservation creates thousands of high-paying, high-skilled jobs. Where do historic preservationists work?
