2025 Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

Landscape Architecture is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #188 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. 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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Landscape Architecture Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 45 master's degrees in landscape architecture during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Landscape Architecture School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of landscape architecture for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality landscape program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master'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 - The number of landscape architecture students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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 much debt landscape architecture students go into to obtain their master'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 master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Landscape Architecture in the Far Western US Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in landscape architecture.

Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Landscape

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA

12 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Washington - Seattle Campus if you want to pursue a master's degree in landscape architecture. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in landscape architecture from University of Washington - Seattle Campus

2

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

13 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in landscape architecture has to check out University of Oregon. UO is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Eugene.More information about a master’s in landscape architecture from University of Oregon

3

California State Polytechnic University - Pomona
Pomona, CA

13 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat California State Polytechnic University - Pomona if you wish to pursue a master's degree in landscape architecture. Cal Poly Pomona is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Pomona.More information about a master’s in landscape architecture from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Best Landscape Architecture Colleges by State

Explore the best landscape architecture schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	253	7
Oregon	158	17
Hawaii	85	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Landscape

Landscape Architecture is one of 8 different types of Architecture & Related Services programs to choose from.

Landscape Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Landscape Architecture	45

Majors Similar to Landscape

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology	704
Urban & Regional Planning	427
General Architecture	40
Interior Architecture	40
Real Estate Development	25
Architecture (Other)	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to La Citta Vita. More about our data sources and methodologies.