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Engineering Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has fifteen engineering schools within its city limits. University of Illinois at Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with an engineering 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 engineering programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of engineering professors at University of Illinois at Chicago such as Elodie Adida, Rashid Ansari, Robert Becker, John Bell, Jezekiel Ben-Arie, and Michael Brown.

Engineering students from Chicago schools who go on to become engineers, audio engineers, aerospace engineers, automotive engineers, 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, Aerospace engineers make on average $96,270 per year and there are about 70,570 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 80 employed aerospace engineers earning an average salary of $102,830. 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 aerospace engineers.

Of the 15 engineering schools in Chicago, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, DeVry University-Illinois comes out as the most expensive ($24,959/yr) for engineering students, with BIR Training Center as the lowest, reported at only $3,504/yr.

Engineering Programs in Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Chemical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Civil Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Computer Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Industrial Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Materials Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters, PhD
• Mechanical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD

Illinois Institute of Technology

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Architectural Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, PhD
• Chemical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Civil Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Civil Engineering, Other
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Computer Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Computer Hardware Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Engineering, Other
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters, PhD
• Geotechnical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Manufacturing Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Materials Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Mechanical Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters, PhD
• Petroleum Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Structural Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Transportation and Highway Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Water Resources Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Engineering/Industrial Management
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Saint Xavier University

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Engineering, Other
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Taylor Business Institute

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

BIR Training Center

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

DeVry University-Illinois

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Computer Software Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors
• Computer Engineering Technology/Technician
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Robert Morris College

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates

Roosevelt University

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Westwood College-O'Hare Airport

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates

Westwood College-Chicago Loop

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates

East-West University

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors

City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates
• Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates

City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College

• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates

City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College

• Engineering
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Engineering, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Engineering technologies/technicians
  

  Levels offered: Associates

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Related Subjects - Schools in or near Chicago

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