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Industrial Design Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has three industrial design schools within its city limits. University of Illinois at Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with an industrial design 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 industrial design programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of industrial design professors at University of Illinois at Chicago such as Michael Andersen, Stephen Melamed, and Peter Zerillo.

Industrial Design students from Chicago schools who go on to become industrial designers, commercial designers, architecture designers, designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 65,460 people working as industrial engineering technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $49,030. Also, Graphic designers make on average $47,820 per year and there are about 200,870 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 7,690 employed graphic designers earning an average salary of $53,710. Industrial engineering technicians in this area earn $48,500/yr and there are 1,330 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 industrial engineering technicians, and 2/1000 are held by graphic designers.

Of the 3 industrial design schools in Chicago, only 2 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 industrial design students, with University of Illinois at Chicago as the lowest, reported at only $8,828/yr.

Industrial Design Programs in Chicago

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Masters

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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