<p>Hey! what are some good schools for landscape architecture? It seems like not a ton of universities offer it as a major, just wondering what some of the better ones are? thanks!</p>
<p>Check the list of accredited LA programs at the American Society of Landscape Architects website at ©</a> ASLA.org. Many well-regarded programs are at land grant universities in the Midwest.</p>
<p>Hi madeline, Our s is going into this major and we looked into and visited a number of the schools (in the southeast primarily) for a BLA. All of these schools have the 5 yr Land Arch program, though. </p>
<p>As schleen stated, schools like Kansas State, Ball State, Purdue and Ohio State are strong in the midwest. Penn State, Cornell, SUNY-ESF in the northeast and in the south the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech and LSU are highly regarded. We also know of a local firm with a great reputation that has two Clemson grads as its lead designers. Check out the asla site that schleen mentioned; it gives a ton of info about the profession. My son had to choose between UGA and VT. It was a tough one for him but he is headed to Virginia Tech in a couple of weeks. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Penn State's program is ranked #1 according to the DesignIntelligence survey.</p>
<p>Madeline,</p>
<p>As KandKsmom mentioned all (to my knowledge) of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture programs are 5 years long. Also Cagb1016 is incorrect in the regard that in 2008 DesignIntelligence ranked Pennsylvania State University 10th and not 1st for its BLA program.</p>
<p>Top 10 2008 BLA Schools</p>
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<ol>
<li>Kansas State University (removing it's BLA program)</li>
<li>Louisiana State University</li>
<li>University of Georgia</li>
<li>Ball State University</li>
<li>Purdue University</li>
<li><p>Cornell University
Texas A&M University</p></li>
<li><p>Iowa State University
Ohio State University</p></li>
<li><p>Pennsylvania State University</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Also you should visit the following site to find out what universities offer the major. ©</a> ASLA.org</p>
<p>I stand corrected--Penn State was ranked first in the 2007 survey.</p>
<p>cagb1016,</p>
<p>Hope my response didn't sound a too arrogant as I just wanted to get the right info across. I also think that if you choose to go to any of the schools offering the major that are recognized by the ASLA then you should be okay, but that is just me. I'd like to think it's the effort you put into it and not the prestige : )</p>
<p>Anyways my last link isn't the same as schleen's. Maybe to be more clear
ASLA</a> Recognized Institutions</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>thanks all!</p>
<p>Im in middle of deciding to transfer into LArch at LSU now.</p>
<p>Its just as of now, I have 31hrs and will have 43hrs after this semester. Out of those...i think only 9hrs will transfer the rest would be electives.</p>