Colorado contains one school that offers landscape design programs. Metropolitan State College of Denver has a total student population of 22,837 and is the 4027th highest ranked school in America.
Landscape Design students from Colorado 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 Colorado alone, there are 18,800 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $26,680. Designers in this state earn $31,730/yr and there are 90 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Colorado, the average student population is 3,182 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 2501 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,103 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,337, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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