Fresno, CA (population: 490,930) has one architecture design school within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Modesto Junior College has a total student population of 18,410. It is the 4950th highest ranked school in the USA and the 475th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about architecture design programs in Fresno, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of architecture design professors at Modesto Junior College such as Norm Allinder, T Fisher, Dennis Thorpe, Larry Weese, and Evin Yadegar.
Architecture Design students from Fresno schools who go on to become architecture designers, interior architects, architectural engineers, architectural project managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 2,412,730 people working as architecture and engineering employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $73,590. Also, Landscape architects make on average $65,910 per year and there are about 18,940 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Fresno area alone, there are 40 employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $*. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $74,710/yr and there are 3,560 employed.
Fresno lies in Fresno county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the Fresno area has 323,470 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $40,460 average annual salary. Thus, about 11 out of every 1000 jobs in Fresno are held by architecture and engineering employees, and 0/1000 are held by landscape architects.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Modesto Junior College ends up costing a student $6,882/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fresno |
| Hanford | CA | 51,853 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.1 miles |
| Visalia | CA | 127,444 | 7 | 18.6498 | 161 | 40.6 miles |
| Merced | CA | 78,579 | 3 | 29.789 | 150 | 52.4 miles |
| Porterville | CA | 53,185 | 1 | 11.8615 | 42 | 65.3 miles |
| Ceres | CA | 43,443 | 0 | - | 0 | 85.9 miles |
| Sonora | CA | - | 1 | 10.5858 | 57 | 89.4 miles |
| Modesto | CA | 203,882 | 4 | 24.9737 | 137 | 89.9 miles |
| Salida | CA | - | 2 | 26.0837 | 19 | 95.8 miles |