Outcomes and Career Opportunities
This program will provide memorable experiences that develop in-demand skill sets across environmental sciences, cultural heritage, business, and leadership. Students will also learn how to:
- Use cultural resources as a tool for community capacity building and changemaking
- Communicate cross-culturally to create teams that function at the intersection of equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice
- Act locally and think globally to make sound, ethical decisions
- Direct an organization confidently with the business and marketing experiences required of twenty-first century leadership
- Take an organization to the next level of sustainability for people, heritage, and the environment
- Develop second language skills within the context of the heritage and business management fields (an optional component).
The heritage sector is a growing industry both in the United States and Britain*, and graduates will be prepared for careers in either nation or beyond. Job growth for management occupations is projected to be 7% from 2018-28, (median annual wage for these positions in 2018 was $104,240).
- Job growth for social and community service managers is projected to be 13 percent from 2018-28 (median wage for these positions in 2018 was $65,320).
- Job growth for top executives and organizational leaders is projected to be six percent from 2018-28 (median wage for these positions in 2018 was $189,600).
- The UK-job market reported an anticipated rate of £250 earnings per day for heritage managers, with a UK median wage of £52,500 (2020).
- The heritage sector represents one percent of the total workforce in England, a number set to increase by 3.6 percent annually.
Career opportunities and heritage-related institutions include but are not limited to:
- Advisory Council for Historic Preservation
- American Anthropological Association
- Archaeology management
- British Museum
- English heritage
- Environmental consultancy
- Environmental Protection Agency
- European Historic Houses
- Events coordination and management
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Heritage consultancy
- Historic England
- Infrastructure management
- Museum and collections specialist
- National Geographic
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Park Service
- Policy analysis and development
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Smithsonian
- The Getty
- The National Trust
- The Science Museum Group
- Tribal Access Program
- UNESCO
- United States Department of the Interior
- United States Department of Tribal Affairs
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- World heritage site management
*Data sourced from the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. CW Jobs, UK, and Historic England, UK