2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in Connecticut

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

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

Across Connecticut, there were 19 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Connecticut” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Connecticut”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Merchandising in Connecticut

1

Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#7 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sacred Heart University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Connecticut. Fairfield, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Fashion Merchandising at Sacred Heart University

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University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

#15 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at UBridgeport

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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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