Nevada contains three schools that offer landscape architecture programs. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest-ranking landscape architecture school in NV, has a total student population of 29,080 and is the 1903rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 3 landscape architecture schools in Nevada, all of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of Southern Nevada comes out as the most expensive ($8,990/yr), with Truckee Meadows Community College as the lowest recorded at only $7,896/yr.
Landscape Architecture students from Nevada 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 Nevada alone, there are 10,500 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $26,420. Landscape architects in this state earn $72,710/yr and there are 110 employed.
Also, within the landscape architecture schools in Nevada, the average student population is 3,396 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from landscape architecture, there are 786 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,014 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,730, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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