Washington contains four schools that offer landscape design programs. Edmonds Community College, the highest-ranking landscape design school in WA, has a total student population of 9,658 and is the 4439th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 4 landscape design schools in Washington, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Clover Park Technical College comes out as the most expensive ($9,663/yr), with Clark College as the lowest recorded at only $5,278/yr.
Landscape Design students from Washington 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 Washington alone, there are 17,090 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average yearly salary of $29,940. Designers in this state earn $70,360/yr and there are 490 employed.
Also, within the landscape design schools in Washington, the average student population is 3,354 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from landscape design, there are 3883 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,017 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,803, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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