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Interior Decorating Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has eight interior decorating schools within its city limits. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with an interior decorating 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).

Interior Decorating students from Chicago schools who go on to become interior decorators, interior designers, interior design professors, interior design coordinators, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 46,010 people working as interior designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $51,990. Also, Fashion designers make on average $74,410 per year and there are about 15,780 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed fashion designers earning an average salary of $47,910. Interior designers in this area earn $53,110/yr and there are 1,550 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 interior designers, and **/1000 are held by fashion designers.

Of the 8 interior decorating 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 interior decorating students, with Robert Morris College as the lowest, reported at only $16,956/yr.

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