Fashion Merchandising at Fashion Institute of Technology

What traits are you looking for in a fashion merchandising school? To help you decide if Fashion Institute of Technology is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's fashion merchandising program.

FIT SUNY is located in New York, New York and approximately 8,767 students attend the school each year. Of the 958 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Fashion Institute of Technology in 2019, 437 of them were fashion merchandising majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Fashion Merchandising section at the bottom of this page.

FIT SUNY Fashion Merchandising Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising
• Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising

Online Classes Are Available at FIT SUNY

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? FIT SUNY offers distance education options for fashion merchandising at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

FIT SUNY Fashion Merchandising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the fashion merchandising progam at FIT SUNY compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The fashion merchandising major at FIT SUNY is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Fashion Merchandising. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Online Fashion Merchandising Associate’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular Fashion Merchandising Associate’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular Fashion Merchandising Schools	1
Best Fashion Merchandising Associate’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular Online Fashion Merchandising Schools	1
Most Popular Fashion Merchandising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Best Fashion Merchandising Schools	2
Most Focused Fashion Merchandising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Best Fashion Merchandising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused Fashion Merchandising Schools	3
Most Focused Fashion Merchandising Associate’s Degree Schools	4

Fashion Merchandising Student Demographics at FIT SUNY

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fashion merchandising majors at Fashion Institute of Technology.

FIT SUNY Fashion Merchandising Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 12% of fashion merchandising associate's degrees went to men and 88% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in fashion merchandising only graduates about 9% men each year. The program at FIT SUNY may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 3% more women than average.

FIT SUNY does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in fashion merchandising graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology with a associate's in fashion merchandising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	59
Black or African American	65
Hispanic or Latino	127
White	303
International Students	82
Other Races/Ethnicities	28

FIT SUNY Fashion Merchandising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 437 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in fashion merchandising from FIT SUNY. About 10% were men and 90% were women.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in fashion merchandising at FIT SUNY are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in fashion merchandising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	38
Black or African American	35
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	237
International Students	54
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

FIT SUNY also has a doctoral program available in fashion merchandising. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Special Products Marketing Operations
• Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations

Careers That Fashion Merchandising Grads May Go Into

A degree in fashion merchandising can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Fashion Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives	76,590	$72,820

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.