2023 Best Fashion Merchandising Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Fashion Merchandising for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Fashion Merchandising is the 188th most popular major in the country with 3,644 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across California, there were 332 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 286 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,972 and $17,699 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fashion merchandising programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fashion merchandising program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Fashion Merchandising for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Fashion Merchandising for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Fashion Merchandising for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Fashion Merchandising Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Fashion Merchandising for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this small private for-profit school awarded 262 diplomas to qualified associates’s fashion merchandising students in 2020-2021.
FIDM Los Angeles also took the #1 spot in our “Best Fashion Merchandising Associate Degree Schools in California” ranking.According to our most recent data, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles supports 1,886 students, and 99 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 67 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,704. To help with additional expenses, 31 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
[Read full report on veteran student life at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles]](/colleges/fidm-fashion-institute-of-design-and-merchandising-los-angeles/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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