2024 Best General Apparel & Textiles Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general apparel & textiles, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #159 in the country in terms of popularity. 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 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for general apparel & textiles students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 bachelor's degrees in general apparel & textiles during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general apparel & textiles students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general apparel & textiles students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general apparel & textiles related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general apparel & textiles students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Apparel & Textiles Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Apparel & Textiles Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Apparel & Textiles in the Southwest Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general apparel & textiles.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Apparel and Textiles

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

64 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general apparel & textiles has to take a look at The University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Austin.More information about a bachelor’s in general apparel & textiles from The University of Texas at Austin

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

7 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in general apparel & textiles has to check out New Mexico State University - Main Campus. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general apparel & textiles from New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Best General Apparel & Textiles Colleges by State

Explore the best general apparel & textiles colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	572	76
Arizona	356	0
New Mexico	202	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Apparel and Textiles

One of 5 majors within the Textile & Apparel Studies area of study, General Apparel & Textiles has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Apparel and Textiles

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Apparel & Textile Marketing Management	34

Notes and References

• 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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