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Carpentry Schools in Illinois

7 schools in Illinois offer carpentry-related programs, compared below on official cost, completion, and earnings data. Prefer to earn while you learn? 32 registered apprenticeship sponsors in Illinois train carpentry apprentices — see apprenticeships.

Schools in Illinois
7
Median net price / yr (Illinois)
$8,048
national: $8,400
Median earnings (Illinois)
$38,320
national: $38,513
Apprenticeship sponsors
32
earn while training

Schools, ranked by earnings per tuition dollar

SchoolCityTypeNet price / yrCompletionEarnings (10 yr)
Triton CollegeRiver Grovepublic$4,13818.5%$41,728
Kaskaskia CollegeCentraliapublic$6,47739.1%$38,801
Black Hawk CollegeMolinepublic$6,94431.7%$37,253
Parkland CollegeChampaignpublic$8,04829.5%$38,320
Waubonsee Community CollegeSugar Grovepublic$11,44232.2%$44,788
Southwestern Illinois CollegeBellevillepublic$10,42733.1%$36,884
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King CollegeChicagopublic$9,49427.4%$28,467

Ranking = median earnings 10 years after entry per $1,000 of average yearly net price (methodology). Schools without both figures sort last — "not reported" means the federal dataset lacks the value, not that the school is bad.

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Data: U.S. Dept of Education College Scorecard (most recent release, pulled July 2026) + U.S. Dept of Labor apprenticeship.gov. Methodology & provenance. Independent site — not affiliated with any government agency.