2025 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
128Apparel 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for general apparel & textiles students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 128 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Apparel and Textiles
Cornell University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general apparel & textiles needs to check out University of Delaware. UD is a very large public university located in the suburb of Newark. This university ranks 1st out of 3 colleges for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were about 77 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Fashion Institute of Technology if you want to pursue a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the large city of New York, FIT SUNY is a public school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 4th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 23 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at FIT SUNY 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.
