by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 3,103 people earned their degree in fashion design, making the major the 223rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 36 fashion design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 fashion design graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree fashion studies students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephens College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region. Stephens is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It awarded 5 bachelors’s fashion studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Catherine University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region. St Catherine University is a small school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 6 bachelors’s fashion studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #3 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s fashion studies degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Charles, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fashion studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fashion Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fashion studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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