Mount Prospect, IL (population: 52,994) has twenty-six curriculum schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in this group with a curriculum 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).
Curriculum students from Mount Prospect schools who go on to become curriculum and instruction directors, teachers, educators, professors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 599,500 people working as teachers and instructors alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $41,110. Also, Mathematical science teachers make on average $70,550 per year and there are about 48,100 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 620 employed mathematical science teachers earning an average salary of $60,210. Teachers and instructors in this area earn $84,900/yr and there are 39,740 employed.
Mount Prospect 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 11 out of every 1000 jobs in Mount Prospect are held by teachers and instructors, and 0/1000 are held by mathematical science teachers.
Of the 26 curriculum schools with a 100-mile radius of Mount Prospect, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Argosy University-Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($35,522/yr) for curriculum students, with University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as the lowest, reported at only $8,437/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Mount Prospect |
Arlington Heights | IL | 73,268 | 1 | 24.4091 | 3 | 2.5 miles |
Des Plaines | IL | 57,512 | 1 | 11.0092 | 69 | 3.4 miles |
Palatine | IL | 67,435 | 1 | 12.7765 | 87 | 5.8 miles |
Glenview | IL | 46,461 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.2 miles |
Schaumburg | IL | 71,386 | 3 | 11.8364 | 30 | 7.7 miles |
Addison | IL | - | 1 | 11.9746 | 2 | 9.9 miles |
Hoffman Estates | IL | 54,568 | 1 | 19.0736 | 10 | 10.3 miles |
Skokie | IL | 66,692 | 6 | 22.9614 | 40 | 10.5 miles |
River Grove | IL | - | 1 | 11.7006 | 67 | 11.3 miles |
Hanover Park | IL | - | 1 | 22.3828 | 2 | 11.6 miles |
Glendale Heights | IL | - | 1 | 27.7281 | 3 | 12.6 miles |
Villa Park | IL | - | 2 | 31.4324 | 7 | 12.7 miles |
Evanston | IL | 78,672 | 5 | 24.133 | 202 | 12.9 miles |
River Forest | IL | - | 2 | 45.0836 | 173 | 13.6 miles |
Carol Stream | IL | 40,639 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.2 miles |
Lombard | IL | 43,240 | 3 | 11.1886 | 2 | 14.3 miles |
Oak Park | IL | 49,270 | 1 | 1.32863 | 0 | 14.6 miles |
Glen Ellyn | IL | - | 1 | 13.8242 | 100 | 14.8 miles |
Berwyn | IL | 49,477 | 1 | 23.6937 | 4 | 17.7 miles |
West Dundee | IL | - | 1 | 23.2604 | 5 | 17.7 miles |
Elgin | IL | 111,179 | 3 | 24.5629 | 139 | 18.1 miles |
Downers Grove | IL | 49,475 | 1 | 0.403237 | 10 | 19.1 miles |
Lisle | IL | - | 2 | 24.7595 | 107 | 19.9 miles |
Chicago | IL | 2,878,948 | 79 | 18.4208 | 1,944 | 20.8 miles |
Waukegan | IL | 91,248 | 0 | - | 0 | 21.1 miles |
Crystal Lake | IL | 42,672 | 3 | 24.3677 | 64 | 22.9 miles |
Woodridge | IL | - | 1 | 16.3637 | 24 | 23.1 miles |
Naperville | IL | 146,177 | 1 | 64.8467 | 83 | 24.0 miles |
Bolingbrook | IL | 72,318 | 0 | - | 0 | 26.6 miles |
Palos Heights | IL | - | 1 | 26.9291 | 61 | 28.8 miles |