Massachusetts contains one school that offers landscape design programs. Springfield Technical Community College has a total student population of 6,782 and is the 5155th highest ranked school in America.
Landscape Design students from Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts alone, there are 18,960 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $31,030. Designers in this state earn $52,990/yr and there are 260 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Massachusetts, the average student population is 2,580 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 5364 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 4,075 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $5,628, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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