Here's Where You Can Get a Degree in Fashion Merchandising Right Now

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If you're considering a career in fashion merchandising, we've got you covered. To get you started, here are all the schools in the U.S. and internationally that offer degree programs in fashion merchandising.

United States

Academy of Art University

  • Location: San Francisco, CA

  • Degrees offered: AA, BFA, MFA in Fashion Merchandising; MFA in Fashion Merchandising and Management; AA, BFA in Fashion Visual Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $25,728 (undergraduate), $1,218/unit (graduate)

  • School size (approximate): 5,363 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Marketing, Buying Fundamentals, Fashion Manufacturing, Retailing and Management, E-commerce

  • Other details to note: remote learning available

Appalachian State University

  • Location: Boone, NC

  • Degrees offered: BS in Apparel Design and Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $8,081 (in-state), $25,077 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 20,436 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Apparel and Consumer Behavior, Apparel Design Studio, Survey of Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Buying and Retail Math

  • Other details to note: also available as a minor, minor in marketing required

Baylor University 

  • Location: Waco, TX

  • Degrees offered: BS in Apparel Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $54,844

  • School size (approximate): 20,709 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Apparel Quality Analysis or Apparel Design Construction, Principles of Marketing, Fashion Trend Analysis and Forecasting, Apparel Financial Control or Visual Merchandising and Promotion

  • Other details to note: also available as a minor, minor in marketing required

Berkeley College

  • Location: New York City, Woodbridge and Woodland Park, NY

  • Degrees offered: AAS in Fashion Merchandising and Management, BBA in Fashion Merchandising and Management

  • Tuition cost: $26,900 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 3,600 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Introduction to Fashion Business, Fashion Textiles for Apparel and Home, Merchandise Planning and Buying, Interactive Fashion Communication, Financial Accounting

  • Other details to note: remote learning available, program offered at multiple campuses

Cal Polytechnic University, Pomona

  • Location: Pomona, CA

  • Degrees offered: BS in Apparel Merchandising and Management

  • Tuition cost: $7,438 (in-state), $11,880 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 26,973 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Agriculture and the Modern World, Introduction to Fashion Studies and Careers, Fashion Retail Buying, Textile Quality Assurance, Apparel Professional Development

  • Other details to note: can option in apparel design or production, fashion retailing or textiles; part of the College of Agriculture

California State University, Long Beach

  • Location: Long Beach, CA

  • Degrees offered: BA in Family and Consumer Sciences

  • Tuition cost: $7,008 (in-state), $10,296 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 39,435 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Design and Merchandising Praticum, Fashion Forecasting, Professionalism and Leadership in Family & Consumer Sciences, Fundamentals of Economics

  • Other details to note: offered as a minor

California State University, Los Angeles

  • Location: Los Angeles, CA

  • Degrees offered: Undergraduate Certificate in Fashion Retailing

  • Tuition cost: $6,792 (in-state), $16,296 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 22,536 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Principles of Retailing, Retail Buying and Merchandising, Introduction to Fashion, Fiber and Materials, Exhibition and Performance of Fashion, Fiber and Materials

  • Other details to note: supplemental certificate, 18 total credits required

Centenary College

  • Location: Hackettstown, NJ

  • Degrees offered: BFA in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $36,636 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 1,500 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Social Responsibility in the Global Fashion Industry (Culture and Soc: Social and Community Responsibility), Fashion Coordination and Promotion, Visual Merchandising, Social and Psychological Aspects of Clothing, Cultural Understanding in a Global Context

  • Other details to note: remote learning available

Central Michigan University

  • Location: Mount Pleasant, MI

  • Degrees offered: BA, BAA, BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design Major: Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising Concentrations; BAA, BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design Major: Visual Merchandising and Product Development Concentrations; MS in Apparel Product Development and Merchandising Technology

  • Tuition cost: undergraduate: $11,376 (domestic), $20,400 (international); graduate: $726/credit hour (domestic), $925/credit hour (international)

  • School size (approximate): 14,594 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Buying, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Advertising and Promotion, Luxury Fashion Brand Management, Apparel Quality Analysis

  • Other details to note: concentration within major

Drexel University

  • Location: Philadelphia, PA

  • Degrees offered: BS, MBA in Design and Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $58,293 (undergraduate), $1,423/credit hour (graduate)

  • School size (approximate): 22,344 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Introduction to the Fashion Industry, Analysis of Products, Textiles for Merchandising, Retail Operations, Planning & Buying, Merchandising Operations and Management, Visual Merchandising, Product Development and Sourcing Strategies, Merchandising Analytics

Iowa State University

  • Location: Ames, IA

  • Degrees offered: BS in Apparel, Merchandising and Design

  • Tuition cost: $4,491/semester (in-state); $13,084/semester (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 25,241 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in US Society, Fashion History, History of Menswear, Queer Fashions, Black Lives Matter: Fashion, Politics, and Resistance Movement, Omnichannel Retailing, Retail Information Analysis

Johnson & Wales University 

  • Location: Providence, RI

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising and Retailing

  • Tuition cost: $39,792

  • School size (approximate): 4,652 (undergraduates)

  • Examples of courses: Forecasting, Retail Math, Fashion and Retail Lab, Marketing Foundations, Strategic Planning in the Fashion Industry

  • Other details to note: remote learning available

Kent State University

  • Location: Kent, OH

  • Degrees offered: undergraduate degree in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost:  $12,304 (in-state), $21,410 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 28,000 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Visuals, Buying and Planning, Branding, Fashion Forecasting, Computer Applications, Product Development, Apparel Analysis

  • Other details to note: remote learning available

LIM College 

  • Location: New York, NY

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising; MA in Fashion Merchandising and Retail Management

  • Tuition cost:  $31,090 (undergraduate), $33,690 (graduate)

  • School size (approximate): 1,209 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Applied Concepts in Merchandising, Fabric For Fashion, Digital Tools For Fashion Presentations

Long Island University

  • Location: Brookeville, NY

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising and Management

  • Tuition cost: $39,458 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 15,191 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Media, Luxury Branding, Business of Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Law, Fashion Entrepreneurship

Marist College 

  • Location: Poughkeepsie, NY

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $45,330 (undergraduate)

  • Program size (approximate): 6,464 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Supply Chain Management, Retailing Principles and Practices, Buying, Planning, and Allocation, Retail Entrepreneurship

  • Other details to note: three concentrations to choose from

Marymount University

  • Location: Arlington, VA

  • Degrees offered: BA in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing

  • Tuition cost: $37,400 (undergraduate)

  • Program size (approximate): 4,257 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Product Development, Fashion Apparel and Accessory Coordination, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Show Production, Digital Publishing, Omnichannel Fashion Merchandising, Principles of Marketing

Mercyhurst University

  • Location: Erie, PA

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $41,580 (undergraduate)

  • Program size (approximate): 2,659 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Personal Styling Analysis, Fashion Branding, Global Fashion Trends, Menswear, Fashion Buying with Excel

Miami International University of Art and Design

  • Location: Miami, FL

  • Degrees offered: BA in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $103,500 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 874 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Brand Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Consumer Behavior, Merchandise Management, Advertising, Retail Operations and Technology

Stevenson University

  • Location: Pikesville, MD

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $36,940 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 3,483 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses:Fashion and Culture, Business of Fashion, Fashion Retailing, Fashion Product Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Fundamentals of Digital Media

 Syracuse University

  • Location: Syracuse, NY

  • Degrees offered: BS in Retail Management

  • Tuition cost: $61,310 (undergraduate)

  • School size (approximate): 22,698 (total)

  • Examples of courses: Retail Buying and Planning, Visual Merchandising and Store Planning, Electronic Retailing and Marketing, Retailing Fundamentals, Sales and Strategic Partnerships

Thomas Jefferson University

  • Location: Philadelphia, PA

  • Degrees offered: BA, MA in Fashion Merchandising and Management

  • Tuition cost: $43,100 (undergraduate), $1,190/credit (graduate)

  • School size (approximate): 3,754 (undergraduate)

  • Examples of courses: Product Development and Innovation, Merchandise Buying, Visual Merchandising, Business Licensing

University of Delaware

  • Location: Newark, DE

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion Merchandising and Management

  • Tuition cost: $6,685 (in-state), $17,945 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 23,613 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fundamentals of Textiles, Merchandise Planning, Strategic Fashion Management, Apparel Brand Management and Marketing, Global Fashion Consumer and Retailers

University of North Texas

  • Location: Denton, TX

  • Degrees offered: BA, MA in Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: BA: $11,197 (in-state), $21,278 (out-of-state), MA: $11,034 (in-state),  $21, 114 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 44,532 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Consumers in a Global Market, Buying, Global Sourcing, Intro to Retail Merchandising, Sustainable Strategies in Merchandising

University of South Carolina

  • Location: Columbia, SC

  • Degrees offered: BS in Retailing

  • Tuition cost: $12,688 (in-state), $33,928 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 35,590 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Principles of Retailing, Retail Buying, Retail Promotion, Business Law, Multinational Retailing

University of Wisconsin, Stout 

  • Location: Menomie, WI

  • Degrees offered: BS in Fashion and Retail

  • Tuition cost: $9,663 (in-state), $17,930 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 7,226 (total)

  • Examples of courses: Trend Tracking and Forecasting, Assortment Planning, Current Retail Strategies for a Differential Advantage

Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Location: Richmond, VA

  • Degrees offered: BA in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $16,233 (in-state), $38,817 (out-of-state)

  • School size (approximate): 28,408 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Technology in Fashion Merchandising, Fashion History: The Modern Era, Fashion Forecasting, Fashion Branding, Line Development Studio

International

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Location: Hong Kong

  • Degrees offered: MA in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: $42,100 HKD (graduate)

  • School size (approximate): 19,046

  • Examples of courses: Apparel Performance Evaluation, Current Issues in Fashion Business, Sourcing and Logistics

Istituto Europeo di Design

  • Location: Florence, Italy

  • Degrees offered: MA in Fashion Merchandising and Buying

  • Tuition cost: €24,000

  • School size (approximate): 9,000 (undergraduate and graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Supply Chain

  • Other details to note: nine-month program

Istituto Marangoni 

  • Location: Milan, Italy

  • Degrees offered: MA in Fashion Merchandising and Buying

  • Tuition cost: €28,200 (domestic), €30,900 (international)

  • School size (approximate): 4,000 (total)

  • Examples of courses: History of Fashion, Fashion Trend Forecasting, Communication Theory, Fashion Design, Product Design

JD Institute of Fashion Technology 

  • Location: New Delhi, India

  • Degrees offered: Diploma in Fashion Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: ₹70,800

  • Examples of courses: Merchandising Concept, Planning, Costing, Sourcing Strategies

  • Other details to note: six-month program

London College of Fashion

  • Location: London, England

  • Degrees offered: BA in Fashion Buying and Merchandising

  • Tuition cost: £9,250 (domestic), £25,970 (international)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Retail Landscape, Circular Product Development, Critical Issues in Fashion Research, Fashion Cultures and Histories

  • Other details to note: nine-month program

Polimoda

  • Location: Florence, Italy

  • Degrees offered: MS in Fashion Merchandising and Buying

  • Tuition cost: €28,000 (graduate)

  • Examples of courses: Fashion Culture, Fashion Buying, Fashion Retail, Fashion Merchandising

  • Other details to note: nine-month program

Raffles Design Institute, Singapore 

  • Location: Singapore

  • Degrees offered: Advanced Diploma in Retail Management

  • Tuition cost: $46,000

  • Examples of courses: Buying Principles, Consumer Behavior, International Retailing, Luxury Retailing

  • Other details to note: 18-month program

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