2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Costume Design

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Costume Design Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 80 people earned their degree in costume design, making the major the 1061st most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 costume design graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the costume design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Costume Design Schools for an Associate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Costume Design Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree costume design students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Costume Design

#1

FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$41,505 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Costume Design Schools for an Associate. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s costume design degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

FIDM Los Angeles also made our “Best Costume Design Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend FIDM Los Angeles is $41,505 for associate degree costume design students.

Read more about Costume Design at FIDM Los Angeles

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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