Liberal Arts Schools In Illinois
Illinois has 104 accredited liberal arts schools where liberal arts faculty who teach liberal arts classes can find employment. The trends in Illinois' liberal arts academic community can be evaluated by looking at the statistics and graphs below. Academia in liberal arts includes liberal arts training at the following levels:
- Liberal Arts Certificate
- Associates degree in Liberal Arts
- Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts
- Masters degree in Liberal Arts
- PhD degree in Liberal Arts
Schools
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Augustana College in Rock Island
639 38th St, Rock Island, Illinois 61201-2296
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Aurora University
347 S Gladstone Ave, Aurora, Illinois 60506-4892
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Southwestern Illinois College
2500 Carlyle Ave, Belleville, Illinois 62221-5899
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Black Hawk College
6600-34th Avenue, Moline, Illinois 61265-5899
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Bradley University
1501 W Bradley Ave, Peoria, Illinois 61625-0001
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Carl Sandburg College
2400 Tom L. Wilson Boulevard, Galesburg, Illinois 61401
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Chicago State University
9501 S. King Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60628-1598
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Chicago Theological Seminary
5757 S. University Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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University of Chicago
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College
6301 S Halsted St, Chicago, Illinois 60621-2709
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City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College
1900 W Van Buren, Chicago, Illinois 60612-3197
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City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College
10001 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60628-1696
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City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College
1145 W Wilson Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60640-6063
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City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College
7500 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, Illinois 60652-1299
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City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College
30 E Lake St, Chicago, Illinois 60601-2449
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City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College
4300 N Narragansett, Chicago, Illinois 60634-1500
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Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan, Chicago, Illinois 60605-1996
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Concordia University in River Forest
7400 Augusta, River Forest, Illinois 60305-1499
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Danville Area Community College
2000 E Main St, Danville, Illinois 61832-5118
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College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137-6599
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East-West University
816 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60605
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Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, Illinois 61920
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Elgin Community College
1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, Illinois 60123-7193
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Elmhurst College
190 Prospect Ave, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3096
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Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
2121 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60201-3298
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Governors State University
1 University Pky, University Park, Illinois 60484
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Greenville College
315 E. College Ave, Greenville, Illinois 62246
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Highland Community College in Freeport
2998 W Pearl City Rd, Freeport, Illinois 61032-9341
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University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S Morgan, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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Benedictine University
5700 College Rd, Lisle, Illinois 60532-0900
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
601 E John Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820-5711
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Illinois Wesleyan University
1312 N Park St, Bloomington, Illinois 61702-2900
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Illinois Central College
One College Drive, East Peoria, Illinois 61635-0001
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Illinois Eastern Community Colleges-Olney Central College
305 N West Street, Olney, Illinois 62450
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Illinois Institute of Technology
3300 S Federal St, Chicago, Illinois 60616
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Illinois State University
North and School Streets, Normal, Illinois 61790-1000
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Illinois Valley Community College
815 N Orlando Smith Ave, Oglesby, Illinois 61348-9692
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John A Logan College
700 Logan College Road, Carterville, Illinois 62918-2500
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John Wood Community College
1301 S 48th Street, Quincy, Illinois 62305-8736
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Joliet Junior College
1215 Houbolt Rd, Joliet, Illinois 60431-8938
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Kankakee Community College
100 College Drive, Kankakee, Illinois 60901
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Kaskaskia College
27210 College Rd, Centralia, Illinois 62801
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Kishwaukee College
21193 Malta Rd, Malta, Illinois 60150-9699
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College of Lake County
19351 W Washington St., Grayslake, Illinois 60030-1198
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Lake Forest College
555 N Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045-2399
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Lake Land College
5001 Lake Land Blvd, Mattoon, Illinois 61938
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Lewis and Clark Community College
5800 Godfrey Rd, Godfrey, Illinois 62035
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Lewis University
One University Parkway, Romeoville, Illinois 60446-2200
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Lincoln Christian University
100 Campus View Drive, Lincoln, Illinois 62656-2111
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Lincoln Land Community College
5250 Shepherd Rd, Springfield, Illinois 62794-9256
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Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Rd, Chicago, Illinois 60660
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MacMurray College
447 E. College Ave, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650-2590
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McHenry County College
8900 US Hwy 14, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60012-2761
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McKendree University
701 College Rd, Lebanon, Illinois 62254-1291
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Millikin University
1184 W Main St, Decatur, Illinois 62522-2084
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Monmouth College
700 E Broadway, Monmouth, Illinois 61462-1998
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Moraine Valley Community College
9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills, Illinois 60465-0937
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Morton College
3801 S Central Ave, Cicero, Illinois 60804-4398
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National-Louis University
122 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
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North Central College
30 N Brainard St, Naperville, Illinois 60540
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North Park University
3225 W Foster Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60625-4895
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Northern Illinois University
1425 W. Lincoln Hwy., Dekalb, Illinois 60115-2828
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Northwestern University
633 Clark St, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N Saint Louis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60625-4699
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Oakton Community College
1600 E Golf Rd., Des Plaines, Illinois 60016-1268
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Olivet Nazarene University
One University Avenue, Bourbonnais, Illinois 60914-2271
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Parkland College
2400 W Bradley Ave, Champaign, Illinois 61821-1899
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Prairie State College
202 South Halsted Street, Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411-8226
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Principia College
1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, Illinois 62028-9799
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Quincy University
1800 College Ave, Quincy, Illinois 62301-2699
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Richland Community College
One College Pk, Decatur, Illinois 62521-8512
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Rock Valley College
3301 N Mulford Rd, Rockford, Illinois 61114-5699
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Rockford College
5050 E State St, Rockford, Illinois 61108-2311
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Roosevelt University
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60605-1394
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Dominican University
7900 W Division St, River Forest, Illinois 60305
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University of St Francis
500 N Wilcox St, Joliet, Illinois 60435-6188
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Saint Xavier University
3700 W 103rd St, Chicago, Illinois 60655
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University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, Springfield, Illinois 62703-5407
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Sauk Valley Community College
173 Illinois Rt 2, Dixon, Illinois 61021
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Shawnee Community College
8364 Shawnee College Rd, Ullin, Illinois 62992
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Shimer College
3424 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616
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Saint Augustine College
1333-45 W Argyle, Chicago, Illinois 60640-3593
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Southeastern Illinois College
3575 College Road, Harrisburg, Illinois 62946
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Spoon River College
23235 North County 22, Canton, Illinois 61520-8622
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Springfield College in Illinois
1500 North Fifth Street, Springfield, Illinois 62702-2694
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4512
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Il State Rte 157, Edwardsville, Illinois 62026-1001
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South Suburban College
15800 South State Street, South Holland, Illinois 60473-1200
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Trinity Christian College
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, Illinois 60463-0929
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Trinity International University in Deerfield
2065 Half Day Rd, Deerfield, Illinois 60015-1283
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Triton College
2000 5th Ave, River Grove, Illinois 60171-1995
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Waubonsee Community College
Rte 47 at Waubonsee Drive, Sugar Grove, Illinois 60554-0901
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Western Illinois University
1 University Circle, Macomb, Illinois 61455
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Wheaton College in Wheaton
501 College Ave, Wheaton, Illinois 60187-5593
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Harper College
1200 W Algonquin Rd, Palatine, Illinois 60067-7398
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Heartland Community College
1500 West Raab Road, Normal, Illinois 61761-9446
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Illinois Eastern Community Colleges-Frontier Community Coll
Frontier Drive, Fairfield, Illinois 62837
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Illinois Eastern Community Colleges-Lincoln Trail College
11220 State Hwy 1, Robinson, Illinois 62454
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Illinois Eastern Community Colleges-Wabash Valley College
2200 College Drive, Mount Carmel, Illinois 62863
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Cities
- Liberal Arts Schools in Chicago, IL23 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Springfield, IL3 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Quincy, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Peoria, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Decatur, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Normal, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Lincoln, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Champaign, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Evanston, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in River Forest, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Rockford, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Joliet, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Galesburg, IL2 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Palatine, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in South Holland, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Macomb, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Lebanon, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Lake Forest, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Aurora, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Monmouth, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Dekalb, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Lisle, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Canton, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Olney, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Elgin, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Naperville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Robinson, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Elmhurst, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Sugar Grove, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in East Peoria, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Glen Ellyn, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Bloomington, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Jacksonville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Malta, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Cicero, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in River Grove, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Kankakee, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Wheaton, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Bourbonnais, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Danville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Ullin, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Dixon, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Charleston, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Centralia, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Freeport, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Mattoon, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Fairfield, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Chicago Heights, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Edwardsville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Ina, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Crystal Lake, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Rock Island, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Elsah, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Mount Carmel, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Deerfield, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Romeoville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Moline, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Godfrey, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Carbondale, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Des Plaines, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Palos Heights, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Oglesby, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Belleville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Carterville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Grayslake, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Palos Hills, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Greenville, IL1 Schools
- Liberal Arts Schools in Harrisburg, IL1 Schools
Statistics
Professional Trends
Illinois Vs. National Liberal Arts Employment
Illinois | 2,620 |
National | 69,880 |
Of all of the liberal arts professionals that work in the US, approximately 4% work in Illinois state.
Employment Growth for Liberal arts professionals In Illinois
2,910 | 2,540 | 2,130 | 2,010 | 2,620 |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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- Yellow: Actual Values
In Illinois, the field of liberal arts is shrinking. There were 290 less liberal arts professionals working in Illinois in 2010, than there were in 2006. This represents a 10% decline in the field. This decline is slower than the national trend for liberal arts professionals which shows a 18% increase in the number of liberal arts professionals working around the nation.
Liberal Arts VS. All Professions salaries in Illinois
$53,150 | $51,880 | $61,770 | $63,590 | $60,140 |
$46,261 | $48,114 | $49,602 | $50,552 | $51,250 |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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- Light Blue: Liberal Arts
- Dark Yellow: All Professions
In Illinois, as the number of liberal arts professionals is declining, the salaries earned by liberal arts professionals are increasing. Liberal arts professionals earned a yearly mean salary of $53,150 in 2006. They earned a yearly mean salary of $60,140 in 2010.
Salary percentiles for Liberal arts professionals in Illinois
10th percentile |
$24,200 |
25th percentile |
$34,010 |
50th percentile |
$46,670 |
75th percentile |
$67,350 |
90th percentile |
$97,170 |
This represents a 12% growth in salaries. This growth is mirrored by state trends for all professionals. Within the field of liberal arts, there is a huge variation in pay, with the highest paid liberal arts professionals earning 302% more money than those in the bottom 10% of the pay bracket in Illinois state.
Average Salaries for Liberal arts professionals and related professions in Illinois
English |
$55,400 |
History |
$55,015 |
Liberal Arts |
$60,140 |
Math |
$85,915 |
Music |
$24,525 |
In Illinois, liberal arts professionals make, on average, less than their counterparts in related professions.
Educational Trends
Liberal Arts programs available for each degree type for all schools in Illinois
associate |
92 |
bachelor |
100 |
master |
21 |
doctor |
10 |
Certificate |
2 |
Total | 225 |
As the number of liberal arts professionals is decreasing in Illinois state, the number of students graduating from the 104 accredited liberal arts schools in Illinois state is increasing. In 2006, 14,137 students graduated from liberal arts courses in Illinois. And in 2010, 14,621 students graduated.
This represents a 3% increase in the number of liberal arts degree or certificate school graduates in Illinois state. Most of these graduates, or 44%, earned an bachelor's degree in liberal arts.
Liberal Arts Faculty Salaries in Illinois
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