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2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

4 Ranked Colleges
45 Degrees Awarded
$25,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New England region, there were 74 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,100 and $37,306 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in landscape architecture. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great landscape architecture programs and cost less that 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 New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the New England Region

#1

Boston Architectural College

Boston, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston Architectural College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s landscape students in 2019-2020.

Boston Architectural College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $28,865 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students per year to attend Boston Architectural College.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Landscape Architecture at Boston Architectural College

#2

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a public institution located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree landscape students list, UMass Amherst has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $22,501 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students per year to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Landscape Architecture at University of Massachusetts Amherst

#3

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for URI is $20,607 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, 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%.

Full University of Rhode Island Landscape Architecture Report

#4

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #4 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s landscape degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree landscape students list, Northeastern has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $31,093 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students per year to attend Northeastern.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Northeastern Landscape Architecture Report

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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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