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Architecture Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has five architecture schools within its city limits. University of Illinois at Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with an architecture program, has a total student population of 26,840. It is the 161st highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University). To learn more about architecture programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of architecture professors at University of Illinois at Chicago such as Doug Garofalo, Grant Gibson, Sharon Haar, Silke Lux, Igor Marjanovic, and Adrian McDermott.

Architecture students from Chicago schools who go on to become architects, architecture designers, landscape architects, interior architects, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 2,412,730 people working as architecture and engineering employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $73,590. Also, Landscape architects make on average $65,910 per year and there are about 18,940 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 410 employed landscape architects earning an average salary of $66,090. Architecture and engineering employees in this area earn $73,960/yr and there are 54,660 employed.

Chicago lies in Cook county, which is one of the 49 counties in Illinois. Overall, the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area has 3,669,800 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,910 average annual salary. Thus, about 15 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by architecture and engineering employees, and 0/1000 are held by landscape architects.

Of the 5 architecture schools in Chicago, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, School of the Art Institute of Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($38,965/yr) for architecture students, with University of Illinois at Chicago as the lowest, reported at only $8,828/yr.

Architecture Programs in Chicago

• Architecture and related services
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Architecture and Related Services, Other
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Architecture and related services
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters

• Architecture and related services
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Architecture and related services
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Interior Architecture
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Architecture and related services
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters

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