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FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles was awarded 21 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is visual & performing arts.
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FIDM Los Angeles was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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The acceptance rate at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles is a competitive 42%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
The student to faculty ratio at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles is about average at 17 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles is 5%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,847 undergraduates at FIDM Los Angeles with 1,580 being full-time and 267 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $39,297 | $39,041 | $41,150 | $45,431 | $46,247 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of FIDM Los Angeles, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At FIDM Los Angeles, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $7,173 a year. That adds up to $28,692 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for FIDM Los Angeles are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 919 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1421 |
| Phone: | 213-624-1200 |
| Website: | www.fidm.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Design & Applied Arts | 274 | $26,479 |
| Other Business, Management & Marketing | 228 | $35,898 |
| Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing | 180 | NA |
| Textile & Apparel Studies | 42 | NA |
| Marketing | 29 | NA |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 13 | NA |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 11 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 1,427 students took at least one online class at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles. This is an increase from the 916 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,427 | 31 |
| 2021-2022 | 916 | 124 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,244 | 272 |
| 2018-2019 | 524 | 90 |
Learn more about online learning at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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