2025 Best Fashion Merchandising Associate Degree Schools
10
Colleges in the United States
1,084
Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in
fashion merchandising, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #89 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 10 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for fashion merchandising students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,084 associate degrees in fashion merchandising during the <nil> academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Fashion Merchandising School for Your Associate Degree
The fashion merchandising associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality fashion merchandising program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on fashion merchandising students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other fashion merchandising students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fashion merchandising related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fashion merchandising students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Fashion Merchandising Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.