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2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

4 Ranked Colleges
45 Degrees Awarded
$46,000 Avg Salary
Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Landscape Architecture is the 224th most popular major in the country with 997 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, landscape architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,411 and had an average of $27,759 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 74 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,000 and $30,100 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in landscape architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality landscape architecture programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Iowa State is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 25 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students whose families make $48-$75k list, Iowa State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Iowa State University is $14,161 for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a large school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 14 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #3 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UNL is $16,197 for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Landscape Architecture at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. This fairly large school is located in Fargo, North Dakota, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

North Dakota State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for North Dakota State University - Main Campus is $15,686 for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#4

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 4 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for South Dakota State University is $19,326 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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).
  • 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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • 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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