2025 Best Landscape Architecture Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
169Landscape Degrees Awarded
$53,021Avg Early-Career Salary
Landscape Architecture degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #247 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Landscape Architecture Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 169 degrees in landscape architecture to qualified students.
The landscape program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Landscape Architecture rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for landscape architecture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Landscape Architecture in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the landscape degree levels they offer.
Cornell University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in landscape architecture. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 37 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year.
Temple University is a great option for students pursuing a degree in landscape architecture. Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 8th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 9 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in landscape architecture. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 29 landscape architecture students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the landscape program make an average of $44,459 in their early career salary.
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).
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The landscape program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Landscape Architecture rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for landscape architecture schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
