Oklahoma contains three schools that offer landscape architecture programs. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, the highest-ranking landscape architecture school in OK, has a total student population of 25,881 and is the 919th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 3 landscape architecture schools in Oklahoma, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus comes out as the most expensive ($12,887/yr), with Kiamichi Technology Center-McAlester as the lowest recorded at only $1,310/yr.
Landscape Architecture students from Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma alone, there are 7,820 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $21,550. Landscape architects in this state earn $37,960/yr and there are employed.
Also, within the landscape architecture schools in Oklahoma, the average student population is 1,754 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from landscape architecture, there are 4305 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,424 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,600, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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