Landscape Architecture isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #188 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 60 master's degrees in landscape architecture to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to landscape architecture students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other landscape architecture students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for landscape architecture to pay back their student loans after receiving their master'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 schools for landscape architecture students working on their master's degree.
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 Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
