2024 Best Fashion Merchandising Schools in Illinois
4Colleges in Illinois
36Fashion Merchandising Degrees Awarded
Fashion Merchandising is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #188 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for fashion merchandising students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 36 degrees in fashion merchandising to qualified students.
Your choice of fashion merchandising school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Fashion Merchandising School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fashion Merchandising Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Fashion Merchandising in Illinois
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the fashion merchandising degrees they offer, see the list below.
Dominican University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in fashion merchandising. Located in the suburb of River Forest, Dominican U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #691 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Dominican U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 13 fashion merchandising students who graduated with this degree at Dominican U in the most recent data year.
Olivet Nazarene University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in fashion merchandising. Olivet Nazarene is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small suburb of Bourbonnais. A Best Colleges rank of #760 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Olivet Nazarene is a great university overall.
There were roughly 1 fashion merchandising students who graduated with this degree at Olivet Nazarene in the most recent year we have data available.
Eastern Illinois University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in fashion merchandising. Located in the distant town of Charleston, EIU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 51st out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 2 fashion merchandising students who graduated with this degree at EIU in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Illinois University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in fashion merchandising. Located in the remote town of Macomb, WIU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 39th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 6 fashion merchandising students who graduated with this degree at WIU in the most recent data year.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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