City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Address: 601 S. Morgan St.
17. Illinois Institute Of Art—Chicago
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Telephone: (800) 351-3450, (312) 280-3500
Address: 350 N. Orleans St.
Description: Part of a network of more than 40 locations in North America, the Chicago outlet offers two: one in the Merchandise Mart and one at the corner of Lake and Wabash Avenues, featuring the student-run Backstage Bistro. The school offers a variety of year-round bachelor degree programs in fine arts, arts, applied science, and science; several associate degrees are also available.
18. Kendall College
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Address: 900 N. North Branch St.
Description: Kendall College is famous for its culinary arts program, but it also offers undergraduate degrees in business, hospitality management, and early childhood education. Founded in 1934, the college currently has more than 2,500 students, with the culinary arts students making news recently when The Dining Room at Kendall College got a shout-out in the first-ever Michelin Chicago guide, making it one of just three US culinary school restaurants ever recognized in a Michelin Guide.
19. Le Cordon Bleu College Of Culinary Arts Chicago
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Telephone: (312) 944-0882
Address: 361 W. Chestnut St.
Description: The Chicago location of this culinary giant, which got its start in Paris more than 100 years ago, offers associate and certificate programs in culinary arts and baking. Students get plenty of on-the-job training, including at the student-run restaurant called Technique.
20. National Louis University
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Telephone: (888) NLU-TODAY (658-8632), (8
Address: 122 S. Michigan Ave.
Description: National Louis started with its College of Education, founded in 1886. It has since added a College of Arts and Sciences, and a College of Management and Business. Besides its flexible day, evening, weekend, and online classes, its class size of generally fewer than 20 contribute to the university’s appeal for its more than 14,000 students, 70 percent of whom participate in graduate programs. In addition to its downtown Chicago campus, National Louis has campuses in suburban Elgin, Lisle, Skokie, and Wheeling.
21. School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Education
Telephone: (312) 629-6100
Address: 37 S. Wabash Ave.
Description: The list of SAIC’s famous alums is impressively long and includes everyone from Georgia O’Keeffe to David Sedaris, Cynthia Rowley to Nora Dunn. And there’s good reason. Founded in 1866, 11 years before its partner institution, the esteemed Art Institute of Chicago museum, the school provides multidisciplinary undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate degrees in all realms of art. The fine arts graduate program was ranked number 3 out of a list of 220 in the US by US News and World Report.