2025 Best Costume Design Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

1 College in the Middle Atlantic Region

4 Costume Design Degrees Awarded

Costume Design degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #1122 out of the 1506 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

There was only one school in the Middle Atlantic Region to review for the 2025 Best Costume Design Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.

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Master's Degrees in Costume Design

The costume design 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 Costume Design Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region. 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 Costume Design in the Middle Atlantic 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 costume design degree levels they offer.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Costume Design

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Carnegie Mellon University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in costume design. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a degree in costume design from Carnegie Mellon University

Best Costume Design Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	1,026	2
Pennsylvania	978	4

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One of 11 majors within the Drama & Theater Arts area of study, Costume Design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Costume Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theater Arts	2,494
Acting	602
Musical Theater	498
Playwriting & Screenwriting	216
Other Dramatic/Theatre Arts & Stagecraft	210
Theater Design & Technology	200
Directing & Theatrical Production	104
Theatre Literature, History & Criticism	11
Theatre and Dance	3

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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).
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