Nevada contains two schools that offer landscape design programs. Truckee Meadows Community College, the highest-ranking landscape design school in NV, has a total student population of 12,942 and is the 5347th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 2 landscape design schools in Nevada, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of Southern Nevada comes out as the most expensive ($8,990/yr), with Truckee Meadows Community College as the lowest recorded at only $7,896/yr.
Landscape Design students from Nevada 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 Nevada alone, there are 10,500 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $26,420. Designers in this state earn $53,860/yr and there are 70 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Nevada, the average student population is 3,396 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 786 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,014 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,730, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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