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Landscape Design Schools near Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has ten landscape design schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Milwaukee Area Technical College, the highest ranked school in this group with a landscape design program, has a total student population of 20,215. It is the 3681st highest ranked school in the USA and the 67th highest in the state of Wisconsin (#1 is University of Wisconsin-Madison). To learn more about landscape design programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of landscape design professors at Milwaukee Area Technical College such as Howard Austin, and Kemper Jill.

Landscape Design students from Chicago 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 Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 20,780 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average salary of $26,760. Designers in this area earn $67,030/yr and there are 990 employed.

Chicago lies in Cook county, which is one of the 49 counties in Illinois. Overall, the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area has 3,669,800 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,910 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by designers, and 6/1000 are held by landscaping and groundskeeping workers.

Of the 10 landscape design schools with a 100-mile radius of Chicago, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of DuPage comes out as the most expensive ($7,916/yr) for landscape design students, with Triton College as the lowest, reported at only $2,479/yr.

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