2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Landscape Architecture is the 224th most popular major in the country with 997 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, landscape architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,411 and had an average of $27,759 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 51 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,900 and $22,495 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in landscape architecture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent landscape architecture programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture (Income $0-$30k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$23,915 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$52,107 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this large public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified masters’s landscape students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CU Anschutz, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus are $23,915, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Landscape Architecture at CU Anschutz

#2

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

$29,112 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k. U of I is a fairly large public school situated in Moscow, Idaho. It awarded 3 masters’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

U of I also took the #0 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Idaho are $29,112, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Landscape Architecture at University of Idaho

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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