Minnesota contains five schools that offer landscape design programs. Central Lakes College-Brainerd, the highest-ranking landscape design school in MN, has a total student population of 4,206 and is the 4422nd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 5 landscape design schools in Minnesota, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Dakota County Technical College comes out as the most expensive ($14,282/yr), with Central Lakes College-Brainerd as the lowest recorded at only $9,841/yr.
Landscape Design students from Minnesota 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 Minnesota alone, there are 13,460 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $27,460. Designers in this state earn $47,250/yr and there are 320 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Minnesota, the average student population is 3,459 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 5327 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,013 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $6,006, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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