2025 Best Fashion Design Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
20Fashion Studies Degrees Awarded
A degree in fashion design is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #223 out of 1506 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Fashion Design Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 20 degrees in fashion design annually.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for fashion design schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
The fashion studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fashion Design Schools in the Plains States Region.
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Best Schools for Fashion Design in the Plains States Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the fashion studies degree levels they offer.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Fashion Studies
Washington University in St Louis is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in fashion design. WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 2 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in fashion design needs to take a look at Johnson County Community College. JCCC is a fairly large public college located in the medium-sized city of Overland Park. This college ranks 4th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were about 6 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at JCCC in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Lindenwood University if you wish to pursue a degree in fashion design. Located in the city of Saint Charles, Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 13th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 1 fashion design students who graduated with this degree at Lindenwood University in the most recent data year.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for fashion design schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
