Landscape Architecture is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #192 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for landscape architecture students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 bachelor's degrees in landscape architecture during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 - The number of landscape architecture students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 much debt landscape architecture students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. UMass Amherst is a very large public university located in the small city of Amherst.
Soon after graduation, landscape bachelor's recipients usually make around $46,163 at the beginning of their careers.
University of Rhode Island is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. URI is a large public university located in the large suburb of Kingston.
Landscape Architecture bachelor's degree recipients from University of Rhode Island earn a boost of about $5,879 above the average income of landscape architecture graduates.
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).
