2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising
9
Ranked Colleges
41
Degrees Awarded
$28,900
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Fashion Merchandising is the 188th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major”.
Top 9 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Academy of Art University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s fashion merchandising degrees to 18 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Academy of Art University
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. JWU Providence is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 1 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full JWU Providence Fashion Merchandising Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major list. Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Charles, Missouri. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 Lindenwood University
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Central Michigan University is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Full Central Michigan University Fashion Merchandising Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Eastern Michigan University
University of Missouri - Columbia did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major ranking, coming in at #6. Mizzou is located in Columbia, Missouri and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Mizzou
Ball State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major ranking, coming in at #7. Muncie, Indiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s fashion merchandising degrees to 22 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 more about Fashion Merchandising at Ball State
Jose Maria Vargas University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major ranking. JMVU is a private for-profit institution located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Read more about Fashion Merchandising at Jose Maria Vargas University
Johnson & Wales University - Online did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major ranking, coming in at #7. JWU Online is a small school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 12 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full JWU Online Fashion Merchandising Report
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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
- *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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