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Best Value Colleges for Landscape Architecture

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

29

Schools Ranked

$47,604

Avg. Earnings

2.7 yrs

Best Payback

364

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public	$10,364	$50,439	2.7 yrs
2	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN · Public	$8,450	$46,869	2.8 yrs
3	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA · Public	$8,393	$45,696	3.1 yrs
4	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE · Public	$15,394	$51,273	3.8 yrs
5	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH · Public	$13,273	$48,432	4 yrs
6	Ball State University Muncie, IN · Public	$15,158	$50,320	4 yrs
7	Utah State University Logan, UT · Public	$13,553	$47,729	4.3 yrs
8	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona, CA · Public	$15,958	$49,136	4.5 yrs
9	Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX · Public	$17,525	$50,231	4.6 yrs
10	West Virginia University Morgantown, WV · Public	$13,077	$46,478	4.6 yrs
11	North Dakota State University-Main Campus Fargo, ND · Public	$16,071	$48,682	4.7 yrs
12	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA · Public	$19,623	$51,273	4.8 yrs
13	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ · Public	$20,927	$52,107	4.9 yrs
14	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA · Public	$16,667	$48,745	4.9 yrs
15	Iowa State University Ames, IA · Public	$14,641	$46,924	4.9 yrs
16	University of Georgia Athens, GA · Public	$15,037	$46,966	5 yrs
17	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA · Public	$18,372	$49,562	5 yrs
18	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX · Public	$15,248	$47,260	5 yrs
19	University of California-Davis Davis, CA · Public	$14,193	$46,087	5.1 yrs
20	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA · Public	$17,340	$48,041	5.3 yrs
21	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR · Public	$16,256	$47,260	5.3 yrs
22	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA · Public	$27,137	$54,810	5.5 yrs
23	University of Oregon Eugene, OR · Public	$16,014	$45,696	6 yrs
24	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ · Public	$15,561	$45,207	6.1 yrs
25	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO · Public	$15,086	$44,590	6.3 yrs
26	Clemson University Clemson, SC · Public	$20,797	$43,798	9.5 yrs
27	University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI · Public	$18,131	$42,123	10.2 yrs
28	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY · Public	$21,638	$42,682	11.3 yrs
29	Temple University Philadelphia, PA · Public	$21,568	$42,123	12.1 yrs

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.