Fashion Design at Virginia Commonwealth University

If you plan to study fashion design, take a look at what Virginia Commonwealth University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

VCU is located in Richmond, Virginia and has a total student population of 29,070.

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

VCU Fashion Design Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Studies

VCU Fashion Design Rankings

The fashion studies major at VCU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Fashion Design. 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.

Fashion Studies Student Demographics at VCU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fashion studies majors at Virginia Commonwealth University.

VCU Fashion Design Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 14% of fashion studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 86% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its fashion studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor's in fashion studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	35
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Visual Communications
• Interior Design
• Other Design & Applied Arts
• Graphic Design
• Illustration

Careers That Fashion Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in fashion studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Virginia Commonwealth University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA

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 user:mentes under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.