2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Fashion Merchandising is the 188th most popular major in the country with 3,644 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across California, there were 332 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 286 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,972 and $17,699 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in fashion merchandising. That schools that top this list have a program in fashion merchandising in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in California

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FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California list. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s fashion merchandising degrees to 262 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles

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Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California

#22 overall quality in California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Academy of Art University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California list. This medium-sized school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 3 associates’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Academy of Art University Fashion Merchandising Report

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Skyline College
San Bruno, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Skyline College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in California list. This medium-sized school is located in San Bruno, California, and it awarded 0 associates’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Fashion Merchandising at Skyline College

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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