2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the Plains States Region
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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 Plains States region, there were 53 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,898 and $30,751 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree 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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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree landscape students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s landscape students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.
Full South Dakota State Landscape Architecture Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s landscape degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on 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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s landscape degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Landscape Architecture at North Dakota State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 21 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Landscape Architecture at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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