2024 Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
42
Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
landscape architecture, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #321 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 master's degrees in landscape architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Landscape Architecture School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of landscape architecture for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to landscape architecture students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other landscape architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized landscape architecture related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for landscape architecture students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Landscape Architecture Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.