Pennsylvania contains fifteen schools that offer architecture design programs. University of Pennsylvania, the highest-ranking architecture design school in PA, has a total student population of 24,599 and is the 5th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 15 architecture design schools in Pennsylvania, only 9 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr), with Pennsylvania Highlands Community College as the lowest recorded at only $3,390/yr.
Architecture Design students from Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania alone, there are 670 employed landscape architects earning an average yearly salary of $60,950. Architecture and engineering employees in this state earn $68,330/yr and there are 97,460 employed.
Also, within the architecture design schools in Pennsylvania, the average student population is 2,077 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from architecture design, there are 10679 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,747 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $9,718, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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