Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has two drafting schools within its city limits. ITT Technical Institute-Omaha, the highest ranked school in the city with a drafting program, has a total student population of 617. It is the 4002nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 35th highest in the state of Nebraska (#1 is University of Nebraska at Kearney).
Drafting students from Omaha 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 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 drafting schools in Omaha, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute-Omaha comes out as the most expensive ($22,177/yr) for drafting students, with Metropolitan Community College Area as the lowest, reported at only $6,723/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 |