by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking.
Landscape Architecture is the 247th most popular major in the country with 905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, landscape architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,957 and had an average of $24,403 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 207 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,741 and $21,083 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in landscape architecture. That schools that top this list have a program in landscape architecture in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Truckee Meadows Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Truckee Meadows Community College is a medium-sized school located in Reno, Nevada that handed out 1 associates’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Landscape Architecture at Truckee Meadows Community College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Valley College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region. Saratoga, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s landscape degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Academy of Art University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Far Western US Region. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized school located in San Francisco, California that handed out 7 associates’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Academy of Art University Landscape Architecture Report
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