2025 Best Fashion Merchandising Bachelor's Degree Schools
29
Colleges in the United States
1,742
Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in
fashion merchandising is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #144 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 29 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for fashion merchandising students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,742 bachelor's degrees in fashion merchandising to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Fashion Merchandising School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The fashion merchandising bachelor's 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school'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 - The number of fashion merchandising students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- 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 colleges for fashion merchandising students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The fashion merchandising school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fashion Merchandising Bachelor's Degree Schools.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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