Landscape Architecture isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #192 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for landscape architecture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 66 bachelor's degrees in landscape architecture to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Landscape Architecture School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The landscape bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality landscape program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on landscape architecture students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other landscape architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for landscape architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized landscape architecture related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for landscape architecture students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Landscape Architecture Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Texas A&M University - College Station is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the landscape program make about $47,770 in the first couple years of working.
Arizona State University - Tempe is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tempe.
Soon after graduation, landscape bachelor's recipients usually make around $46,569 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The landscape bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality landscape program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
