Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has two architecture design schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the highest ranked school in this group with an architecture design program, has a total student population of 24,100. It is the 840th highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Nebraska (#1 is University of Nebraska at Kearney). To learn more about architecture design programs in Omaha, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of architecture design professors at University of Nebraska such as Ron Bartels, Duncan Case, Jeff Day, Carol Easley, Lindsey Ellsworth, and Chris Ford.
Architecture Design students from Omaha 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 Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area alone, there are 70 employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $75,680. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $64,110/yr and there are 5,490 employed.
Omaha lies in Douglas county, which is one of the 40 counties in Nebraska. Overall, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area has 452,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.23/hr average worker wage, and a $40,000 average annual salary. Thus, about 12.149 out of every 1000 jobs in Omaha are held by architecture and engineering employees, and 0.153/1000 are held by landscape architects.
Of the 2 architecture design schools with a 100-mile radius of Omaha, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Nebraska-Lincoln comes out as the most expensive ($12,519/yr) for architecture design students, with Western Iowa Tech Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,768/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Omaha |
| Papillion | NE | - | 1 | 19.7538 | 14 | 7.5 miles |
| Council Bluffs | IA | 59,918 | 3 | 15.2545 | 57 | 7.9 miles |
| Lincoln | NE | 257,612 | 13 | 28.3679 | 496 | 46.7 miles |
| Peru | NE | - | 1 | 16.7679 | 31 | 56.2 miles |
| Crete | NE | - | 1 | 28.8976 | 48 | 66.3 miles |
| Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 88.0 miles |