Student surveys from undergraduate business programs at DePaul University, Loyola Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) reported that the most popular industries for recent graduates seeking jobs were in accounting and financial services.
Some schools like the University of Chicago reported students increasingly diversifying in fields such as healthcare, research science, and computer technology. Chicago is an ideal place to explore countless career paths, with one of the world’s largest and most diversified economies.
Chicago’s roots in manufacturing and transportation/warehousing are strengthened by today’s emerging technology-based fields.
- Fin-Tech – Chicago comprises a thriving ecosystem of financial tech companies, like Morningstar and ThinkorSwim, that have grown up around CME Group, the world’s largest futures and options exchange.
Info Tech – With 350,000 info tech employees and a higher info tech gross regional product than San Francisco, Chicago has attracted major tech companies like Groupon, NAVTEQ, CareerBuilder, and Orbitz. It is also the Midwest headquarters of Google, Microsoft, and IBM.- Health IT – Chicago is a global leader in biomed tech transfer, and has some of the largest and most innovative health services and research companies including Abbott Laboratories, Allscripts, Baxter, and Takeda.
