Arizona contains three schools that offer landscape design programs. The Art Center Design College-Tucson, the highest-ranking landscape design school in AZ, has a total student population of 279 and is the 2714th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 3 landscape design schools in Arizona, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Center Design College-Tucson comes out as the most expensive ($35,307/yr), with Glendale Community College as the lowest recorded at only $7,676/yr.
Landscape Design students from Arizona schools who go on to become landscape designers, landscape architects, landscapers, landscape supervisors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 10,510 people working as designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,420. 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 Arizona alone, there are 26,990 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $23,170. Designers in this state earn $"*"/yr and there are 310 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Arizona, the average student population is 7,131 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 19 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 3266 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,667 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,108, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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