Jacksonville, FL (population: 822,401) has three drafting schools within its city limits. Florida Technical College of Jacksonville Inc, the highest ranked school in the city with a drafting program, has a total student population of 313. It is the 1411th highest ranked school in the USA and the 57th highest in the state of Florida (#1 is University of Miami).
Drafting students from Jacksonville schools who go on to become architects, architecture designers, drafters, landscape architects, 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 Jacksonville area alone, there are ** employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $81,370. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $65,550/yr and there are 9,230 employed.
Jacksonville lies in Duval county, which is one of the 49 counties in Florida. Overall, the Jacksonville area has 581,450 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $39,460 average annual salary. Thus, about 16 out of every 1000 jobs in Jacksonville are held by architecture and engineering employees, and **/1000 are held by landscape architects.
Of the 3 drafting schools in Jacksonville, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute-Jacksonville comes out as the most expensive ($22,344/yr) for drafting students, with Florida Community College at Jacksonville as the lowest, reported at only $6,668/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Jacksonville |
| Orange Park | FL | - | 3 | 22.5405 | 26 | 11.7 miles |
| Saint Augustine | FL | - | 2 | 46.0117 | 74 | 36.6 miles |
| Palm Coast | FL | 76,000 | 0 | - | 0 | 59.1 miles |
| Gainesville | FL | 116,277 | 8 | 23.682 | 358 | 61.2 miles |
| Waycross | GA | - | 2 | 12.3956 | 59 | 73.7 miles |
| Ocala | FL | 57,520 | 3 | 20.3525 | 108 | 83.8 miles |
| Daytona Beach | FL | 63,815 | 4 | 31.0595 | 184 | 86.9 miles |
| South Daytona | FL | - | 1 | 30.9321 | 7 | 89.6 miles |
| Deland | FL | - | 2 | 24.7322 | 98 | 92.6 miles |