2024 Best Fashion Design Schools in Illinois

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for fashion design students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 69 degrees in fashion design during the 2021-2022 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Fashion Design Schools List

Pick Your Fashion Design Degree Level

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Fashion Design Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Fashion Design in Illinois

The schools below may not offer all types of fashion studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Illinois Schools in Fashion Studies

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

58 Fashion Studies Degrees Awarded

Columbia College Chicago is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in fashion design. Columbia is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Chicago.More information about a degree in fashion design from Columbia College Chicago

2

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in fashion design needs to look into School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Located in the city of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.More information about a degree in fashion design from School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Best Fashion Design Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Fashion Design Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

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Rankings in Majors Related to Fashion Studies

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Fashion Design has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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.