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Biotechnology Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has five biotechnology schools within its city limits. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a biotechnology program, has a total student population of 15,879. It is the 144th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University).

Biotechnology students from Chicago schools who go on to become biotechnologists, bioengineers, biomedical engineers, biophysicists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 166,860 people working as medical and clinical laboratory technologists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $55,620. Also, Biochemists and biophysicists make on average $88,550 per year and there are about 22,860 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed biochemists and biophysicists earning an average salary of $80,150. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $53,740/yr and there are 3,760 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 1 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and **/1000 are held by biochemists and biophysicists.

Of the 5 biotechnology schools in Chicago, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Loyola University Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($27,955/yr) for biotechnology students, with University of Illinois at Chicago as the lowest, reported at only $8,828/yr.

Biotechnology Programs in Chicago

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