<p>does anyone have any upper tier colleges in mind that are EXTREMELY good in this area?</p>
<p>Cornell University is extremely strong in those areas. </p>
<p>Other possibly strong programs:</p>
<p>Colorado State University
Michigan State University
North Carolina State University
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Texas A&M University-College Station
University of California-Davis
Virginia Tech</p>
<p>any ideas of some smaller, possibly Liberals arts type school still strong in those areas?</p>
<p>Check this out:</p>
<p>I heard great things about the University of Georgia program, and Athens is one heck of a great college town/campus atmosphere.</p>
<p>Tyically, Landscape Architechture is more related with Agriculture at the undergraduate level and with Architecture at the graduate level.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it appears that Harvard and Penn, both of which essentially founded and continue to lead the field, don't have undergraduate Landscape Architecture programs.</p>
<p>These kinds of programs are generally not offered at smaller LACs, because landscape architecture is not a liberal arts major. Here is a link to the top ten landscape architecture schools, according to Design Intelligence magazine:</p>
<p>Among the top ten, Pomona is probably the only school which would match your idea of the ideal college.</p>
<p>^ That's the same list to which I linked above, only mine is via the American Society of Landscape Architects. :p</p>
<p>hmm... those sites really helped out, thanks guys :)</p>
<p>My S's good friend is in the Landscape Architecture program at NC State. I have heard admittance to the school of design is pretty competitive. </p>
<p>This student ( a rising jr.) spent the Spring semester with a group from NCSU in Prague studying landcsape/architecture of the city. He was very enthusiastic about it when visiting us recently. BTW, this student is not from NC. He came from Iowa to be in this program. I believe he said his other choice of school would have been Rhode Island.</p>
<p>Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is part of the State U of NY (SUNY). But it seems the program is "housed" at Syracuse U. </p>
<p>I believe (but please check it out carefully as THIS is one of the most confusing SUNY programs) you can pay OOS Suny tuition (about $13,000) but live/eat etc with Syracuse U kids. I think you can also take a # of courses outside ESF, with "regular" Syracuse students.</p>
<p>If you are interested, I can probably help you navigate through the Suny website as I am a bit familiar with it.
Cornell has school of architecture- CALS (agriculture and life sciences) and even a design major in its Human Ecology school.
Cornell is pretty complicated too.
As I have one kid at Suny and the other at Cornell, I may be able to help you through the maze of the Cornell website too.</p>
<p>no one has mentioned cal poly slo for some reason</p>
<p>^ It's on the Design Intelligence list to which both admisscouns and I linked above.</p>
<p>philadelphia university has a new program as well.. its a pretty small school geared towards architecture/fashion majors</p>