2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Design in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Fashion Design is the 223rd most popular major in the country with 3,103 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 442 fashion design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 fashion design graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fashion design. That schools that top this list have a program in fashion design in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Design in the Great Lakes Region

1

Wayne County Community College District
Detroit, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne County Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Detroit, Michigan, and it awarded 4 associates’s fashion studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WCCCD Fashion Design Report

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The North Coast College
Lakewood, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The North Coast College landed the #2 spot on the list. The North Coast College is a private for-profit institution located in Lakewood, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Fashion Design at The North Coast College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fashion Design

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.