Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has eighteen landscape design schools within a 2500-mile radius of its city center. Santa Rosa Junior College, the highest ranked school in this group with a landscape design program, has a total student population of 25,877. It is the 4107th highest ranked school in the USA and the 378th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about landscape design programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of landscape design professors at Santa Rosa Junior College such as Barbara Bennetts, Leira Bobo, Bonnie Panizzera, Ginny Winters, and Art Woolsey.
Landscape Design students from Honolulu 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.
Honolulu lies in Honolulu county, which is one of the 4 counties in Hawaii. Overall, the Honolulu area has 430,700 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $21/hr average worker wage, and a $43,760 average annual salary.
Of the 18 landscape design schools with a 2500-mile radius of Honolulu, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of Marin comes out as the most expensive ($12,416/yr) for landscape design students, with City College of San Francisco as the lowest, reported at only $4,129/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Honolulu |
| Kaneohe | HI | - | 1 | 8.23652 | 2 | 6.2 miles |
| Pearl City | HI | - | 2 | 22.3389 | 25 | 12.4 miles |