2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Textile & Apparel Studies in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,313 people earned their degree in textile and apparel studies, making the major the 161st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, textile and apparel studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,996 and had an average of $24,229 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 329 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,057 and $24,857 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in textile and apparel studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their textile and apparel studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree textile studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Textile & Apparel Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minneapolis Community and Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Minneapolis Community and Technical College is a medium-sized school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 14 associates’s textile studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Textile & Apparel Studies at Minneapolis Community and Technical College

2

Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Textile Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. MCC is a fairly large public school situated in Kansas City, Missouri. It awarded 0 associates’s textile studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Textile & Apparel Studies at Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Textile & Apparel Studies

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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