30-36 credits
This program offers students from diverse undergraduate backgrounds a solid academic foundation and the preparation necessary to undertake professional careers in historic preservation.
Graduates of the program enter a wide variety of positions in both the public and private sectors. The intent of the program is to prepare professionals qualified to handle complex problems that arise in rejuvenating the historic cores of cities, maintaining a sense of identity in small communities, revitalizing neighborhoods, restoring historic sites, and rural preservation. Students are exposed to a variety of preservation organizations and speakers and are encouraged to participate in community and state activities.
The curriculum also offers students opportunities to take multidisciplinary courses and engage in projects involving architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, archaeology, history, business, and other related fields.
Concentration 1:
a one-year program, consisting of a minimum of 30 graduate credits. This concentration is for students who already have professional experience (e.g., minimum of two years of professional practice) or who have achieved a minimum 3.0 GPA in previous academic experience (e.g., Ball State undergraduate historic preservation minor; undergraduate historic preservation major from another accredited college or university) and meet the curricular requirements of a minimum of 18 credits, or the equivalent, of the two-year master’s program. The director of the graduate program in historic preservation will qualify applicants.
Admission requirements
Applicants must meet the admission requirements of the Graduate School as well as historic preservation in the Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning.
Degree requirements
Electives approved by the MSHP director, 6-9 credits
Concentration 2:
a one-year (or 3 semesters) program, consisting of a minimum of 36 graduate credits.
Degree requirements
Electives approved by the MSHP director, 9-12 credits