2025 Best Fashion Merchandising Schools in California

A degree in fashion merchandising is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #188 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for fashion merchandising students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 214 degrees in fashion merchandising to qualified students.

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• Best Overall Fashion Merchandising Schools List

Fashion Merchandising Rankings by Degree Level

The fashion merchandising school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fashion Merchandising Schools in California. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Fashion Merchandising in California

Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the fashion merchandising degree levels they offer.

Top California Schools in Fashion Merchandising

1

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

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

180 Fashion Merchandising Degrees Awarded

FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in fashion merchandising. FIDM Los Angeles is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.More information about a degree in fashion merchandising from FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles

2

Academy of Art University
San Francisco, CA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Fashion Merchandising Degrees Awarded

Academy of Art University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in fashion merchandising. Located in the large city of San Francisco, Academy of Art University is a private for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a degree in fashion merchandising from Academy of Art University

Best Fashion Merchandising Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Fashion Merchandising Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	831	11

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Fashion Merchandising Related Rankings by Major

One of 10 majors within the Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing area of study, Fashion Merchandising has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Fashion Merchandising

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations	24
Apparel and Accessories Marketing Operations	4

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.