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Fashion Design Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has five fashion design schools within its city limits. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a fashion design program, has a total student population of 3,164. It is the 2409th highest ranked school in the USA and the 89th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University). To learn more about fashion design programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion design professors at School of the Art Institute of Chicago such as John Bowers, Doug Pancoast, Donald Pollack, Bruce Tharpe, John White, and Daniel Yoshida.

Fashion Design students from Chicago schools who go on to become fashion designers, fashion merchandisers, fashion models, fashion marketers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 15,780 people working as fashion designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $74,410. Also, Designers make on average $50,420 per year and there are about 10,510 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 990 employed designers earning an average salary of $67,030. Fashion designers in this area earn $47,910/yr and there are ** 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 ** out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by fashion designers, and 0/1000 are held by designers.

Of the 5 fashion design schools in Chicago, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, School of the Art Institute of Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($38,965/yr) for fashion design students, with International Academy of Design and Technology as the lowest, reported at only $19,463/yr.

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