2023 Best Value Landscape Architecture Graduate Certificate Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Landscape Architecture Graduate Certificate School for You
Landscape Architecture is the #250 most popular major in the country with 905 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Landscape Architecture Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for landscape students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Landscape Architecture
Our analysis found University of California - Davis to be the best value school for landscape architecture students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. UC Davis is a very large public school located in the suburb of Davis.
UC Davis graduate students pay an average of $28,710 in tuition and fees each year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern California is a great value for landscape architecture students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at USC are $61,396 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, USC also is in the top 10% of our Best Landscape Architecture Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.
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Majors Related to Landscape
One of 8 majors within the area of study, landscape architecture has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Architectural Sciences & Technology | 6,781 |
| General Architecture | 4,982 |
| Urban & Regional Planning | 2,419 |
| Environmental Design | 741 |
| Interior Architecture | 728 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
- 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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