2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$37,200
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Landscape Architecture is the 451st most popular major in the country with 905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 60 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in landscape architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality landscape architecture programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The landscape architecture 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying landscape architecture.
Top 2 Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s landscape architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.Among the 31,642 students enrolled at UMass Amherst, 477 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 252 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,295. On top of their other funding sources, 21 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Landscape Architecture for a Bachelor’s list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 14 bachelors’s landscape architecture degrees in 2020-2021.
URI also took the #2 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Of the 17,649 students enrolled at University of Rhode Island, 381 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 187 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,022. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Rhode Island]](/colleges/university-of-rhode-island/student-life/veterans/)
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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