Best Textile & Apparel Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Textile & Apparel Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Textile & Apparel Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The textile studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality textile studies 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

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 for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to textile & apparel studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of textile & apparel studies students who choose to seek a doctor'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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for textile & apparel studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized textile & apparel studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for textile & apparel studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Because of lacking data, we could not show you the textile & apparel studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer textile & apparel studies and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Textile & Apparel Studies by Region

View the Best Textile & Apparel Studies Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Textile Studies

One of 8 majors within the Family, Consumer & Human Sciences area of study, Textile & Apparel Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Textile Studies Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Apparel & Textiles	14

Majors Similar to Textile Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies	165
General Family & Consumer Sciences	39
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	20
Family & Consumer Economics	9
Housing	9
Human Sciences Business Services	2

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Elisa.rolle. More about our data sources and methodologies.