2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region

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In 2021-2022, 3,106 people earned their degree in fashion merchandising, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 228 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in fashion merchandising. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fashion merchandising program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in the Far Western US Region

1

Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. Academy of Art University is a private for-profit institution located in San Francisco, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Fashion Merchandising at Academy of Art University

2

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Seattle Pacific University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region. SPU is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Seattle Pacific University

3

Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Far Western US Region. Ellensburg, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at CWU

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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