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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the New England Region (With Aid)

4 Ranked Colleges
45 Degrees Awarded
$25,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

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In 2019-2020, 997 people earned their degree in landscape architecture, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States. 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 New England region, there were 74 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,100 and $37,306 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the landscape architecture program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree landscape students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s landscape students in 2019-2020.

URI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $20,607 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students with aid per year to attend URI.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#2

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s landscape degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMass Amherst, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $22,501 for new england region bachelor’s degree landscape students with aid per year to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Landscape Architecture at UMass Amherst

#3

Boston Architectural College

Boston, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston Architectural College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s landscape degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Boston Architectural College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $28,865 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Landscape students with aid per year to attend Boston Architectural College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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#4

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Landscape Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid. Northeastern University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s landscape degrees to qualified students.

Northeastern also took the #2 spot in our “Best Landscape Architecture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northeastern is $31,093 for new england region bachelor’s degree landscape students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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%.

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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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