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Finance Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has nine finance schools within its city limits. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a finance 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 finance programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of finance professors at Loyola University Chicago such as George Davidson, Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee, Michael Harper, Hong, George Kaufman, and Robert Kolb.

Finance students from Chicago schools who go on to become financial managers, finance analysts, financial planners, corporate finance consultants, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 495,180 people working as financial managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $113,730. Also, Budget analysts make on average $69,240 per year and there are about 60,970 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 1,060 employed budget analysts earning an average salary of $71,940. Financial managers in this area earn $123,250/yr and there are 16,620 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 5 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by financial managers, and 0/1000 are held by budget analysts.

Of the 9 finance schools in Chicago, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Loyola University Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($27,955/yr) for finance students, with University of Illinois at Chicago as the lowest, reported at only $8,828/yr.

Finance Programs in Chicago

Loyola University Chicago

• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law (LLM, JSD/SJD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Illinois Institute of Technology

• Finance and Financial Management Services, Other
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law (LLM, JSD/SJD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters

Saint Xavier University

• Finance and Financial Management Services, Other
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

DePaul University

• Finance and Financial Management Services, Other
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

DeVry University-Illinois

• Accounting and Finance
  

  Levels offered: Masters

North Park University

• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Roosevelt University

• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Northeastern Illinois University

• Finance, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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