2025 Best Landscape Architecture Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
46Landscape Degrees Awarded
$53,021Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in landscape architecture, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #247 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Landscape Architecture Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 46 degrees in landscape architecture during the 2021-2022 academic year.
The landscape school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Landscape Architecture Schools in the New England Region.
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Best Schools for Landscape Architecture in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the landscape degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in landscape architecture has to check out Harvard University. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Harvard is a great university overall.
There were approximately 7 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Massachusetts Amherst is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in landscape architecture. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Amherst. This university ranks 10th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
Soon after graduating, landscape degree recipients generally make about $46,163 in their early careers.
University of Rhode Island is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in landscape architecture. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. This university ranks 5th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 16 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year. Landscape Architecture degree recipients from University of Rhode Island get an earnings boost of approximately $4,899 over the typical income of landscape architecture graduates.
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).
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