Indiana contains 50 schools that offer landscape design programs. University of Wisconsin-Madison, the highest-ranking landscape design school in IN, has a total student population of 41,654 and is the 23rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 50 landscape design schools in Indiana, only 21 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Louis University-Main Campus comes out as the most expensive ($31,255/yr), with Triton College as the lowest recorded at only $2,479/yr.
Landscape Design students from Indiana 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 Indiana alone, there are 16,500 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $23,830. Designers in this state earn $36,030/yr and there are 120 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Indiana, the average student population is 3,200 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 4523 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,471 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,867, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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