2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,644 people earned their degree in fashion merchandising, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 36 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,626 and $15,120 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in fashion merchandising. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fashion merchandising program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in Illinois

1

College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of DuPage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Illinois list. COD is a public institution located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full College of DuPage Fashion Merchandising Report

2

William Rainey Harper College
Palatine, Illinois

Top 10% overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, William Rainey Harper College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Palatine, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified associates’s fashion merchandising students in 2020-2021.

Full Harper College Fashion Merchandising Report

3

South Suburban College
South Holland, Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, South Suburban College landed the #3 spot on the list. South Suburban College is a small school located in South Holland, Illinois that handed out 0 associates’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at South Suburban College

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising

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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