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Hospitality Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has four hospitality schools within its city limits. Roosevelt University, the highest ranked school in the city with a hospitality program, has a total student population of 7,306. It is the 3464th highest ranked school in the USA and the 127th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University). To learn more about hospitality programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of hospitality professors at Roosevelt University such as Gerald Bober, Carol Brown, John Guy, Chuck Hamburg, Brian Hile, and William Host.

Hospitality students from Chicago schools who go on to become hospitality managers, caterers, event planners, wedding planners, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 334,310 people working as hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $19,190. Also, Food preparation and serving related employees make on average $20,880 per year and there are about 11,218,260 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 273,490 employed food preparation and serving related employees earning an average salary of $21,490. Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop in this area earn $20,620/yr and there are 8,030 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 2 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, and 75/1000 are held by food preparation and serving related employees.

Of the 4 hospitality schools in Chicago, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Kendall College comes out as the most expensive ($33,701/yr) for hospitality students, with Lexington College as the lowest, reported at only $16,499/yr.

Hospitality Programs in Chicago

• Hospitality Administration/Management, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Hospitality Administration/Management, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Hospitality Administration/Management, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors

• Hospitality Administration/Management, General
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

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