North Carolina contains nineteen schools that offer architecture design programs. North Carolina State University at Raleigh, the highest-ranking architecture design school in NC, has a total student population of 33,819 and is the 70th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 19 architecture design schools in North Carolina, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Fayetteville Technical Community College comes out as the most expensive ($13,508/yr), with Nash Community College as the lowest recorded at only $481/yr.
Architecture Design students from North Carolina 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 North Carolina alone, there are 500 employed landscape architects earning an average yearly salary of $73,120. Architecture and engineering employees in this state earn $66,070/yr and there are 53,760 employed.
Also, within the architecture design schools in North Carolina, the average student population is 3,455 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from architecture design, there are 6640 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,218 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,155, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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