Program Payoff

Illinois Media School

Chicago, Illinois. 3 certificate and associate programs, private, for-profit. 3 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in Illinois.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication Undergraduate certificate $9,500 $21,329 (147) $140,240
Managers, All Other
Film/Video and Photographic Arts Undergraduate certificate $15,833 not published $62,960
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication Undergraduate certificate $10,666 not published $67,380
Training and Development Specialists

"Graduates earn" is the median two years after completing, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10; the number in brackets is how many graduates it covers. A dash means the Department has not published a figure — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates — and never that the figure is zero. "The occupation pays" is the state median for the occupation the program leads to, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, and describes everyone in that job rather than graduates of this school.