2024 Best Landscape Architecture Schools in California
3Colleges in California
160Landscape Degrees Awarded
$44,917Avg Early-Career Salary
Landscape Architecture degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #247 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Landscape Architecture Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 160 degrees in landscape architecture during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of landscape architecture school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for landscape architecture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Landscape Architecture Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Landscape Architecture in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the landscape degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in landscape architecture has to check out University of California - Berkeley. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley. A Best Colleges rank of #18 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UC Berkeley is a great university overall.
There were roughly 24 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at UC Berkeley in the most recent data year.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in landscape architecture. Cal Poly Pomona is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Pomona. This university ranks 65th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 69 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly Pomona in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, landscape degree recipients generally earn about $45,661 in the first five years of their career.
It's difficult to beat California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo if you wish to pursue a degree in landscape architecture. Located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 17th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 50 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent data year. After graduating, landscape degree recipients typically earn around $44,172 in the first five years of their career.
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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Your choice of landscape architecture school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for landscape architecture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
