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Catering Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has two catering schools within its city limits. The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a catering program, has a total student population of 2,990. It is the 3404th highest ranked school in the USA and the 124th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University).

Catering students from Chicago schools who go on to become caterers, professional caterers, food service managers, food service directors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 11,218,260 people working as food preparation and serving related employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $20,880. Also, Meeting and convention planners make on average $48,060 per year and there are about 51,530 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed meeting and convention planners earning an average salary of $52,840. Food preparation and serving related employees in this area earn $21,490/yr and there are 273,490 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 75 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by food preparation and serving related employees, and **/1000 are held by meeting and convention planners.

Of the 2 catering schools in Chicago, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($28,726/yr) for catering students, with Saint Augustine College as the lowest, reported at only $7,441/yr.

Catering Programs in Chicago

• Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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