2022 Best Value Fashion Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Fashion Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Fashion Design is the 207th most popular major in the country with 3,470 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 fashion design graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fashion design programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fashion design program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Fashion Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fashion Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fashion Design (With Aid)

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$30,042 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Fashion Studies Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cornell University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Ithaca, New York. It awarded 2 doctorate’s fashion studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Cornell not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Fashion Design Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Cornell University are $30,042, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Cornell University Fashion Design Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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