2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,100
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in landscape architecture. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their landscape architecture program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree landscape students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Fargo, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees 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 more about Landscape Architecture at North Dakota State University - Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region list. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s landscape degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Landscape Architecture at UMN Twin Cities
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s landscape students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University
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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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