2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 401 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in the Southwest Region

1

Phoenix College
Phoenix, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Phoenix College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s fashion merchandising degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fashion Merchandising at Phoenix College

2

Houston Community College
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified associates’s fashion merchandising students in 2020-2021.

Full Houston Community College Fashion Merchandising Report

3

Mesa Community College
Mesa, Arizona

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mesa Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region. Mesa Community College is located in Mesa, Arizona and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Mesa Community College

4

Pima Community College
Tucson, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pima Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Pima Community College is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Pima County Community College District Fashion Merchandising Report

• 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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