Nationally Ranked Top 10 Program

Year after year, Iowa State University’s undergraduate landscape architecture program is ranked among the top 10 in the United States by DesignIntelligence, a quarterly publication for leaders in the design professions.

The journal’s annual report, “America’s Top-Ranked Architecture and Design Schools,” is the only national college ranking survey that focuses exclusively on design. Rankings cover accredited programs in architecture, interior design/interior architecture and landscape architecture.

For 2019-2020, the ISU undergraduate landscape architecture program is 10th most admired among 47 accredited undergraduate programs in the US. The graduate program is 22nd.

In the “Most Hired From” category, which groups schools by the average number of graduates each year in their combined undergraduate and graduate programs, Iowa State’s landscape architecture program is 7th!