When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture sits in the middle of the road, ranking #192 out of 363 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 bachelor's degrees in landscape architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 complete 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.
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 the Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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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 great choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the landscape program state that they receive average early career wages of $47,770.
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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