2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 52 people earned their degree in costume design, making the major the 1122nd most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 31 costume design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 costume design graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in costume design. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in costume design.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree costume design students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Costume Design in California

1

Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California

#22 overall quality in California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in San Francisco, California, this medium-sized private for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s costume design students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

Read more about Costume Design at Academy of Art University

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FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles landed the #2 spot on the list. FIDM Los Angeles is a small school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 3 bachelors’s costume design degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Costume Design at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Costume 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.

Credits

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