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Multimedia Design Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has nine multimedia design schools within its city limits. Illinois Institute of Technology, the highest ranked school in the city with a multimedia design program, has a total student population of 7,707. It is the 179th highest ranked school in the USA and the 6th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University).

Multimedia Design students from Chicago schools who go on to become multimedia designers, interactive media designers, media designers, digital media designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 28,800 people working as multimedia artists and animators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $62,810. 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. Multimedia artists and animators in this area earn $63,410/yr and there are 730 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 multimedia artists and animators, and 2/1000 are held by graphic designers.

Of the 9 multimedia design schools in Chicago, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($28,726/yr) for multimedia design students, with City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College as the lowest, reported at only $6,561/yr.

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