2025 Best Fashion Design Schools in the Southeast Region
8Colleges in the Southeast Region
369Fashion Studies Degrees Awarded
Fashion Design is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #223 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 8 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Fashion Design Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 369 degrees in fashion design to qualified students.
The fashion studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Fashion Design rankings. For our Best Overall Fashion Design School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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.
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 the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Fashion Design in the Southeast 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 fashion studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in fashion design needs to check out Savannah College of Art and Design. Located in the midsize city of Savannah, SCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
There were about 169 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at SCAD in the most recent year we have data available.
Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in fashion design. VCU is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Richmond. A Best Colleges rank of #189 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means VCU is a great university overall.
There were about 90 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at VCU in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in fashion design has to check out Belmont University. Located in the large city of Nashville, Belmont is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #237 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Belmont is a great university overall.
There were roughly 4 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at Belmont in the most recent data year.
Marymount University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in fashion design. Marymount is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Arlington. This university ranks 14th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 6 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at Marymount in the most recent year we have data available.
MDC is a fairly large public college located in the city of Miami. A Best Colleges rank of #355 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means MDC is a great college overall.
There were roughly 28 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at MDC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Raleigh, Meredith is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 39th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 8 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at Meredith in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Atlanta, CAU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 58th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were about 29 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at CAU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The fashion studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Fashion Design rankings. For our Best Overall Fashion Design School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
