Texas contains six schools that offer landscape design programs. Texas Tech University, the highest-ranking landscape design school in TX, has a total student population of 30,049 and is the 150th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 6 landscape design schools in Texas, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Texas Tech University comes out as the most expensive ($10,763/yr), with Palo Alto College as the lowest recorded at only $3,481/yr.
Landscape Design students from Texas 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 Texas alone, there are 60,040 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $21,970. Designers in this state earn $38,650/yr and there are 120 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Texas, the average student population is 3,703 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 11086 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,493 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,572, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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