Mount Vernon, NY (population: 68,747) has fourteen transportation schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. New York University, the highest ranked school in this group with a transportation program, has a total student population of 43,404. It is the 13th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of New York (#1 is Columbia University in the City of New York).
Transportation students from Mount Vernon schools who go on to become transportation directors, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, train engineers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 92,380 people working as transportation, storage, and distribution managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $85,470. Also, Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks make on average $32,400 per year and there are about 142,500 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the New York-White Plains-Wayne-NJ Metropolitan area alone, there are 7,080 employed reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks earning an average salary of $34,770. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers in this area earn $105,540/yr and there are 3,430 employed.
Mount Vernon lies in Westchester county, which is one of the 28 counties in New York. Overall, the New York-White Plains-Wayne-NJ Metropolitan area has 5,063,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.4% unemployment rate, $27.05/hr average worker wage, and a $56,250 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.677 out of every 1000 jobs in Mount Vernon are held by transportation, storage, and distribution managers, and 1.399/1000 are held by reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.
Of the 14 transportation schools with a 100-mile radius of Mount Vernon, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Baran Institute of Technology comes out as the most expensive ($35,160/yr) for transportation students, with Mercer County Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,403/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Mount Vernon |
Bronxville | NY | - | 2 | 40.2295 | 43 | 2.0 miles |
New Rochelle | NY | 74,592 | 3 | 35.7163 | 149 | 2.7 miles |
Yonkers | NY | 206,441 | 3 | 17.9245 | 2 | 3.5 miles |
Bronx | NY | - | 10 | 27.317 | 379 | 4.6 miles |
Whitestone | NY | - | 1 | 33.134 | 2 | 8.0 miles |
White Plains | NY | 57,617 | 2 | 21.3371 | 15 | 8.4 miles |
Purchase | NY | - | 3 | 30.3278 | 126 | 10.9 miles |
Jackson Heights | NY | - | 1 | 28.2916 | 7 | 11.1 miles |
Queens | NY | - | 1 | 36.0611 | 122 | 11.2 miles |
Hackensack | NJ | 42,824 | 4 | 27.098 | 27 | 11.6 miles |
Valhalla | NY | - | 2 | 5.85535 | 54 | 11.8 miles |
West New York | NJ | 47,282 | 1 | 33.6373 | 6 | 12.5 miles |
Fresh Meadows | NY | - | 1 | 41.5392 | 2 | 12.5 miles |
Rego Park | NY | - | 1 | 27.7974 | 9 | 12.9 miles |
Long Island City | NY | - | 4 | 18.9499 | 59 | 13.0 miles |
Paramus | NJ | - | 3 | 22.7173 | 64 | 13.0 miles |
North Bergen | NJ | 59,771 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.4 miles |
Jamaica | NY | - | 3 | 22.786 | 65 | 14.4 miles |
Ridgewood | NY | - | 1 | 34.5795 | 2 | 15.1 miles |
Greenwich | CT | 63,768 | 0 | - | 0 | 15.4 miles |
Hoboken | NJ | 41,307 | 1 | 72.0499 | 47 | 15.7 miles |
Passaic | NJ | 67,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.1 miles |
Garden City | NY | - | 5 | 29.9653 | 250 | 16.3 miles |
Paterson | NJ | 145,162 | 2 | 18.1967 | 29 | 17.3 miles |
New York City | NY | 8,459,026 | 86 | 26.2632 | 1,528 | 17.6 miles |
Clifton | NJ | 78,248 | 4 | 27.5248 | 46 | 17.6 miles |
Syosset | NY | - | 2 | 24.7065 | 10 | 18.1 miles |
Hempstead | NY | 54,072 | 4 | 22.5315 | 163 | 18.2 miles |
Jersey City | NJ | 242,594 | 10 | 25.9195 | 190 | 18.3 miles |
Hicksville | NY | 41,571 | 0 | - | 0 | 18.8 miles |