Top 15 Undergrad and Grad LA Programs, 2013

The top undergraduate landscape architecture program, according to DesignIntelligence, is Louisiana State University; Harvard gets the nod as the top landscape architecture graduate program.

Well, it's that time of year again. DesignIntelligence has published its 2013 America's Best Schools of Architecture and Design.

DesignIntelligence notes design education is "pretty good the way it is," and "most likely the best that it has ever been." Still, it says this year's rankings by deans, administrators, students and practitioners show considerable quality in design schools, but also "reveals an unrelenting and increasingly dynamic restlessness for renewed strength and fresh relevance."

As always, this year's DesignIntelligence is a ranking directory of the leading architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and industrial design schools. In landscape architecture education, both the undergrad and graduate level programs are listed.

Top 15 Landscape Architecture, Undergraduate
1. Louisiana State University
2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3. Pennsylvania State University
4. Kansas State University
5. Texas A&M University
6. Cornell University
7. Calif. Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
8. Purdue University
9. University of Georgia
10. Ball State University
11. Iowa State University
12. Texas Tech University
13. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
14. Michigan State University
15. Ohio State University

Top 16 Landscape Architecture, Graduate
1. Harvard University
2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3. Cornell University
4. Louisiana State University
5. University of Virginia
6. University of Pennsylvania
7. Pennsylvania State University
8. Rhode Island School of Design
9. Texas A&M University
10. University of California, Berkeley
11. Kansas State University
12. University of Georgia
13. Auburn University
14. University of Texas at Arlington
15. University of Texas at Austin
16. University of Washington

The 2013 America's Best Schools of Architecture and Design also includes:
• The 30 most admired educators of 2013.
• The Design Futures Council proposal to improve design education.
• Architecture school tuition analysis.
• In-depth evaluation of more than 50 schools by more than 2,600 students.
• A sampling of the Greenway Group's practitioner leadership index showing degrees and school affiliations.
• Special report on entrepreneurship in design.
• A complete listing of research participants.