2025 Best Fashion Design Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

an associate degree in fashion design is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #124 out of 1020 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.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Fashion Design Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 470 associate degrees in fashion design during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Fashion Design School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of fashion design for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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 consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various 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 many resources a school devotes to fashion design students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of fashion design students who choose to seek a associate 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 design related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fashion design students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Fashion Design Schools

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 Fashion Design Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Fashion Design in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in fashion design.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for an Associate in Fashion Studies

1

Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

349 Annual Graduates

Fashion Institute of Technology is a good choice for students pursuing an associate degree in fashion design. FIT SUNY is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of New York.More information about a associate in fashion design from Fashion Institute of Technology

2

The New School
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

57 Annual Graduates

The New School is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in fashion design. Located in the city of New York, New School University is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in fashion design from The New School

3

Nassau Community College
Garden City, NY

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in fashion design has to check out Nassau Community College. Nassau Community College is a fairly large public college located in the suburb of Garden City.More information about a associate in fashion design from Nassau Community College

Best Fashion Design Colleges by State

Explore the best fashion design schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	429	436
Pennsylvania	379	10
New Jersey	249	12
Maryland	221	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to Fashion Studies

Fashion Design is one of 9 different types of Design & Applied Arts programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Fashion Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Commercial & Advertising Art	432
Graphic Design	320
Interior Design	225
Illustration	157
Visual Communications	113
Game & Interactive Media Design	79
Commercial Photography	73
Industrial Design	9

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.