Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has four architecture design schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of Kentucky, the highest ranked school in this group with an architecture design program, has a total student population of 26,295. It is the 152nd highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state . To learn more about architecture design programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of architecture design professors at University of Kentucky such as Steve Deger, Henri Dehahn, Dennis Domer, James Gibson, Rokshana Kahn, and Karen Lewis.
Architecture Design students from Louisville 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 Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area alone, there are 110 employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $55,830. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $63,230/yr and there are 8,530 employed.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 14.361 out of every 1000 jobs in Louisville are held by architecture and engineering employees, and 0.188/1000 are held by landscape architects.
Of the 4 architecture design schools with a 100-mile radius of Louisville, all of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus comes out as the most expensive ($17,997/yr) for architecture design students, with Northern Kentucky University as the lowest, reported at only $9,991/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Louisville |
| Jeffersonville | IN | - | 3 | 16.878 | 5 | 4.0 miles |
| New Albany | IN | - | 1 | 50.4945 | 53 | 6.4 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 37.1 miles |
| Saint Catharine | KY | - | 1 | 13.7868 | 38 | 44.1 miles |
| Frankfort | KY | - | 1 | 45.3097 | 44 | 47.1 miles |
| Lexington | KY | 279,146 | 12 | 25.7509 | 248 | 70.7 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 80.8 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 83.8 miles |
| Covington | KY | 43,469 | 3 | 25.6472 | 61 | 87.4 miles |
| Oakland City | IN | - | 1 | 58.4328 | 69 | 87.5 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 92.0 miles |
| Bowling Green | KY | 56,941 | 5 | 29.5084 | 365 | 94.6 miles |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 98.9 miles |
| Evansville | IN | 115,666 | 5 | 36.7615 | 255 | 99.4 miles |
| Somerset | KY | - | 1 | 14.9987 | 47 | 99.8 miles |