2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Landscape Architecture is the 247th most popular major in the country with 926 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , landscape architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $49,385 and had an average of $33,270 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 46 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,998 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 landscape architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in landscape architecture. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in landscape architecture.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree landscape students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Landscape Architecture in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston Architectural College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s landscape students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Landscape Architecture at Boston Architectural College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s landscape degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Landscape Architecture at Harvard
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Landscape Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 0 masters’s landscape degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Full UMass Amherst Landscape Architecture Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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