2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 905 people earned their degree in landscape architecture, making the major the 247th most popular in the United States. 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.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in landscape architecture. To top this list, a school must have a successful landscape architecture program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The landscape school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate”.

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Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree landscape students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 24 doctorate’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State

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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oregon. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Landscape Major for a Doctorate list. This large school is located in Eugene, Oregon, and it awarded 25 doctorate’s landscape degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Landscape Architecture at University of Oregon

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

• *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.

Credits

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