by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 3,644 people earned their degree in fashion merchandising, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 401 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 364 fashion merchandising graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 13 colleges that offered 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Ai Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
Full The Art Institute of Austin Fashion Merchandising Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of San Antonio. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Ai San Antonio is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Fashion Merchandising at The Art Institute of San Antonio
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Houston. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fashion merchandising students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at The Art Institute of Houston
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Art Institute of Dallas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fashion merchandising students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at The Art Institute of Dallas
Out of the 13 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #5 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 41 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
University of North Texas did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. University of North Texas is located in Denton, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 144 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Texas State University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas State University is a public institution located in San Marcos, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 104 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Texas Woman’s University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #8. Texas Woman’s University is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Baylor University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking. This large school is located in Waco, Texas, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
With a ranking of #10, Sam Houston State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region list. SHSU is a large public school situated in Huntsville, Texas. It awarded 18 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Fashion Merchandising at Sam Houston State University
Stephen F Austin State University landed the #11 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Texas Tech University landed the #12 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Northern Arizona University landed the #12 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Merchandising Major in the Southwest Region ranking. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 0 bachelors’s fashion merchandising degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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