2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in the Plains States Region
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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 in the Plains States Region” 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.
Across the Plains States region, there were 140 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fashion merchandising. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in fashion merchandising.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Plains States Region 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Lindenwood University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. Mizzou is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 3 masters’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. 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
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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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