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Childhood Education Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has nineteen childhood education schools within its city limits. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a childhood education 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). To learn more about childhood education programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of childhood education professors at Loyola University Chicago such as Nelsen Armour, Debra Baron, Barney Berlin, Hank Bohanon, Elizabeth Bower, and Jim Breunlin.

Childhood Education students from Chicago schools who go on to become childhood educators, preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, special education teachers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 181,810 people working as kindergarten teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,380. Also, Preschool teachers make on average $27,450 per year and there are about 389,660 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 8,630 employed preschool teachers earning an average salary of $29,350. Kindergarten teachers in this area earn $47,800/yr and there are 2,250 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 kindergarten teachers, and 2/1000 are held by preschool teachers.

Of the 19 childhood education schools in Chicago, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Kendall College comes out as the most expensive ($33,701/yr) for childhood education students, with City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College as the lowest, reported at only $5,698/yr.

Childhood Education Programs in Chicago

Saint Xavier University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

DePaul University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

Roosevelt University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

Kendall College

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Columbia College Chicago

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Northeastern Illinois University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Chicago State University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

National-Louis University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Bachelors, Masters

Saint Augustine College

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Associates

Ellis University

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors

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