2025 Best Fashion Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
46Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in fashion design is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #159 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for fashion design students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 46 bachelor's degrees in fashion design during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Fashion Design School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The fashion studies bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different 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 bachelor'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.
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 bachelor's degree.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Fashion Design in the New England Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for fashion design students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Fashion Studies
Maine College of Art is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in fashion design. Located in the small city of Portland, Maine College of Art is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in fashion design from Maine College of Art
Best Fashion Design Colleges by State
Explore the best fashion design schools for a specific state in the New England Region .
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.