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Video Game Design Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has four video game design schools within its city limits. DePaul University, the highest ranked school in the city with a video game design program, has a total student population of 25,072. It is the 1110th highest ranked school in the USA and the 33rd highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University). To learn more about video game design programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of video game design professors at DePaul University such as Ray Lee, and Matthew Taylor.

Video Game Design students from Chicago schools who go on to become video game designers, game developers, video game developers, video game engineers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 495,500 people working as computer software engineers, applications alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,170. Also, Computer software engineers, systems software make on average $96,620 per year and there are about 385,200 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 13,970 employed computer software engineers, systems software earning an average salary of $93,440. Computer software engineers, applications in this area earn $93,600/yr and there are 12,280 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 3 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by computer software engineers, applications, and 4/1000 are held by computer software engineers, systems software.

Of the 4 video game design schools in Chicago, only 1 has 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 video game design students, with International Academy of Design and Technology as the lowest, reported at only $19,463/yr.

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