2025 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
113Apparel and Textiles Degrees Awarded
A degree in general apparel & textiles is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #279 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 113 degrees in general apparel & textiles to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Apparel & Textiles School
Your choice of general apparel & textiles school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Apparel & Textiles Rankings by Degree Level
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 General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the apparel and textiles degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New England Region Schools in Apparel and Textiles
University of Rhode Island is a good option for students interested in a degree in general apparel & textiles. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston.
There were roughly 68 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent year we have data available.
Framingham State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the city of Framingham, Framingham State is a public university with a small student population.
There were roughly 31 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Framingham State in the most recent data year.
Rhode Island School of Design is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, RISD is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
There were approximately 14 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at RISD in the most recent year we have data available.
Rankings in Majors Related to Apparel and Textiles
General Apparel & Textiles is one of 5 different types of Textile & Apparel Studies programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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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Your choice of general apparel & textiles school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
