2025 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Great Lakes Region
8Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
293Apparel and Textiles Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general apparel & textiles, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #279 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 293 degrees in general apparel & textiles annually.
Choosing a Great General Apparel & Textiles School
The apparel and textiles program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles rankings. For our Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the apparel and textiles degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Apparel and Textiles
Every student pursuing a degree in general apparel & textiles needs to check out Ohio State University - Main Campus. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbus. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ohio State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 91 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Ohio State in the most recent year we have data available.
Indiana University - Bloomington is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general apparel & textiles. IU Bloomington is a fairly large public university located in the city of Bloomington. A Best Colleges rank of #30 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means IU Bloomington is a great university overall.
There were about 74 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at IU Bloomington in the most recent data year.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were about 33 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
Illinois State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 23 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Illinois State in the most recent data year.
OHIO Athens is a very large public university located in the town of Athens. A Best Colleges rank of #184 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means OHIO Athens is a great university overall.
There were approximately 17 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at OHIO Athens in the most recent data year.
NIU is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Dekalb. This university ranks 20th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 10 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at NIU in the most recent data year.
UW - Stout is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Menomonie. This university ranks 29th out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 17 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at UW - Stout in the most recent year we have data available.
Indiana State is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Terre Haute. This university ranks 23rd out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 10 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Indiana State in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The apparel and textiles program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles rankings. For our Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
