The Top Fashion and Design Colleges

By Pat Lowe

There are many colleges that make broad claims to help those who have very specific career hopes and dreams. Anything from general business studies to culinary arts, there is likely a very specific school geared directly towards your goals for future employment if you look hard enough. One of the more popular types of institute are fashion and design colleges. The best part is that you can get a serious job in fashion design through job placement and apprenticeship programs from these schools.

There is no scarcity of available colleges offering courses in fashion designing. The worst part of it is that they all will claim to be the best, and their websites do little to contradict the claim. I believe that, by way of a good bit of research and school review, I have compiled a very strong list of what can easily be considered the best fashion and design colleges in the United States.

These are all highly regarded, so none takes precedence over any other.

A good place to begin is with LIM College sitting comfortably in the heart of Manhattan, NY. They regard themselves as among the premier fashion colleges in the entire country for those looking for serious employment in the fashion industry. While their main draw is undergraduate programs, they also have graduate MBA programs for those wanting to take their possible stake in the fashion community seriously.

The second to be mentioned is the Fashion Institute of Merchandising, which has been making quite a name for itself amongst the recent graduates filing into the fashion world. They have four different campuses, which allows a greater number of students and opportunities such as internships and apprenticeships for diligent students who meet the standards. The four campuses are situated in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, and San Diego. Their status as a school is evident in that the hit show Project Runway is filmed on one of the four campuses of FIDM.

And lastly, the last college to be mentioned will be the Academy of Art University. This college won the "Best Fashion Design & Apparel Design Schools & Programs of 2008" award for their extraordinary dedication to sending out their students to employment. Among the remarkable features of this college is that they do provide degrees in the fashion world on the internet. So you don't need to pack up and head out to New York or California. Among the clients that pick up fresh fashion designer graduates from AAU include: DKNY, Gap Inc., Louis Vuitton, BCBG and many more.

These are three very solid colleges to get you well on your way to a good job in the fashion industry. You can settle for the countless other colleges that litter the internet, but these three have a standing that makes for quite a boost to your resume.

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