Las Vegas, NV (population: 570,083) has four design schools within its city limits. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in the city with a design program, has a total student population of 29,080. It is the 1903rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Nevada (#1 is Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences). To learn more about design programs in Las Vegas, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at University of Nevada such as Ann Flemming.
Design students from Las Vegas schools who go on to become interior designers, architecture designers, designers, graphic designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 46,010 people working as interior designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $51,990. Also, Floral designers make on average $24,940 per year and there are about 51,470 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Las Vegas-Paradise area alone, there are 220 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $32,670. Interior designers in this area earn $68,180/yr and there are 290 employed.
Las Vegas lies in Clark county, which is one of the 8 counties in Nevada. Overall, the Las Vegas-Paradise area has 858,540 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.0% unemployment rate, $19.26/hr average worker wage, and a $40,070 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.333 out of every 1000 jobs in Las Vegas are held by interior designers, and 0.258/1000 are held by floral designers.
Of the 4 design schools in Las Vegas, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Expertise Cosmetology Institute comes out as the most expensive ($21,180/yr) for design students, with University of Nevada-Las Vegas as the lowest, reported at only $8,166/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Las Vegas |
| North Las Vegas | NV | 236,574 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.1 miles |
| Henderson | NV | 265,681 | 11 | 16.4924 | 250 | 17.5 miles |
| Bullhead City | AZ | 41,377 | 0 | - | 0 | 84.6 miles |