Michigan contains five schools that offer landscape architecture programs. Michigan Career and Technical Institute, the highest-ranking landscape architecture school in MI, has a total student population of 224 and is the 699th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 5 landscape architecture schools in Michigan, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Northwestern Michigan College comes out as the most expensive ($8,627/yr), with Michigan Career and Technical Institute as the lowest recorded at only $3,012/yr.
Landscape Architecture students from Michigan schools who go on to become landscape architects, landscape designers, landscapers, landscape supervisors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 18,940 people working as landscape architects alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,910. Also, Landscaping and groundskeeping workers make on average $25,340 per year and there are about 859,960 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Michigan alone, there are 22,700 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $24,550. Landscape architects in this state earn $59,630/yr and there are 530 employed.
Also, within the landscape architecture schools in Michigan, the average student population is 3,208 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from landscape architecture, there are 6233 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,809 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $5,088, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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