2024 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
46Apparel and Textiles Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general apparel & textiles, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #279 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general apparel & textiles. Combined, these schools handed out 46 degrees in general apparel & textiles to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Apparel & Textiles School
The apparel and textiles program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles rankings. For our Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles in Illinois
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the apparel and textiles degree levels they offer.
Illinois State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general apparel & textiles. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #231 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Illinois State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at Illinois State in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Northern Illinois University if you want to pursue a degree in general apparel & textiles. NIU is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Dekalb. This university ranks 24th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 15 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at NIU in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in general apparel & textiles has to check out Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 11 general apparel & textiles students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
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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