2024 Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Southwest Region

A degree in general apparel & textiles is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #279 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. 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 degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 degrees in general apparel & textiles during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall General Apparel & Textiles Schools List

General Apparel & Textiles Rankings by Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Apparel & Textiles Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.

Best Schools for General Apparel & Textiles in the Southwest Region

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 apparel and textiles degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Southwest Region Schools in Apparel and Textiles

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

64 Apparel and Textiles Degrees Awarded

15.6% Growth in Graduates

The University of Texas at Austin is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in general apparel & textiles. UT Austin is a very large public university located in the large city of Austin.More information about a degree in general apparel & textiles from The University of Texas at Austin

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Any student pursuing a degree in general apparel & textiles needs to take a look at New Mexico State University - Main Campus. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in general apparel & textiles from New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Best General Apparel & Textiles Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	905	76
Arizona	670	0
New Mexico	416	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Apparel and Textiles

General Apparel & Textiles is one of 5 different types of Textile & Apparel Studies programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Apparel and Textiles

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Apparel & Textile Marketing Management	35
Apparel & Textile Manufacture	7

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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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More about our data sources and methodologies.