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Landscape Design Schools in Illinois

Illinois contains eleven schools that offer landscape design programs. Illinois Valley Community College, the highest-ranking landscape design school in IL, has a total student population of 4,529 and is the 4648th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 11 landscape design schools in Illinois, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lincoln Land Community College comes out as the most expensive ($8,307/yr), with Triton College as the lowest recorded at only $2,479/yr.

Landscape Design students from Illinois 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 Illinois alone, there are 35,710 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $25,590. Designers in this state earn $63,800/yr and there are 1,520 employed.

Also, within the landscape design schools in Illinois, the average student population is 3,360 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 7983 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,830 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $7,282, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Illinois Interesting Facts

• Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy and Alton hosted the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates that stirred interest all over the country in the slavery issue.
• The first Aquarium opened in Chicago, 1893.
• The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885.
• Home to the Chicago Bears Football Team, Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Chicago Cubs and Chicago Whitesox baseball teams, Chicago Fire soccer team.
• The first Mormon Temple in Illinois was constructed in Nauvoo.

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