San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has three drafting schools within its city limits. ITT Technical Institute-San Antonio, the highest ranked school in the city with a drafting program, has a total student population of 729. It is the 3684th highest ranked school in the USA and the 188th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Drafting students from San Antonio 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 San Antonio area alone, there are ** employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $69,690. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $64,620/yr and there are 12,830 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 15.322 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by architecture and engineering employees, and **/1000 are held by landscape architects.
Of the 3 drafting schools in San Antonio, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute-San Antonio comes out as the most expensive ($22,407/yr) for drafting students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |