Oregon contains three schools that offer landscape design programs. Portland Community College, the highest-ranking landscape design school in OR, has a total student population of 30,161 and is the 5050th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 3 landscape design schools in Oregon, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Portland Community College comes out as the most expensive ($6,829/yr), with Clackamas Community College as the lowest recorded at only $3,722/yr.
Landscape Design students from Oregon 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 Oregon alone, there are 9,930 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $26,640. Designers in this state earn $47,610/yr and there are 230 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Oregon, the average student population is 2,645 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 2428 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,810 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,147, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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