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2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

4 Ranked Colleges
45 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 997 people earned their degree in landscape architecture, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States. 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” 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the Plains States Region

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Fargo, North Dakota. It awarded 2 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

North Dakota State University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $16,584 for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students per year to attend North Dakota State University.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State University is located in Brookings, South Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s landscape degrees to qualified students.

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 yearly cost to attend South Dakota State University is $19,252 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region 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 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 is $15,496 for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students.

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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. UNL is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s landscape degrees to qualified students.

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 University of Nebraska - Lincoln is $17,208 for plains states 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%.

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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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