2024 Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
Landscape Architecture isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #188 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for landscape architecture students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 71 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
The landscape master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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 consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for landscape architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- 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 colleges for landscape architecture students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Landscape Architecture Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Landscape Architecture Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.