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Fine Arts Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has four fine arts schools within its city limits. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a fine arts 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 fine arts programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fine arts professors at Loyola University Chicago such as Michel Balasis, Kevin Bartholomae, Jennifer Beazley, Marilyn Dunn, Nicole Ferentz, and Brian Fiorentino.

Fine Arts students from Chicago schools who go on to become artists, animation artists, fine artists, sculptors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 8,900 people working as fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,630. Also, Craft artists make on average $33,070 per year and there are about 5,380 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed craft artists earning an average salary of $33,210. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this area earn $42,370/yr and there are 280 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 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, and **/1000 are held by craft artists.

Of the 4 fine arts schools in Chicago, only 3 have 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 fine arts students, with DePaul University as the lowest, reported at only $23,656/yr.

Fine Arts Programs in Chicago

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  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

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