Fashion Merchandising at Western Illinois University

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

WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and approximately 7,490 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 6 fashion merchandising majors received their bachelor's degree from WIU.

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.

WIU Fashion Merchandising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising

WIU Fashion Merchandising Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks fashion merchandising programs across the country. The following shows how WIU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The fashion merchandising major at WIU 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
	38
	39
	48

Fashion Merchandising Student Demographics at WIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fashion merchandising majors at Western Illinois University.

WIU Fashion Merchandising Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 fashion merchandising students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from WIU, about 0% were men and 100% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 43% more racial-ethnic minorities in its fashion merchandising bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

WIU also has a doctoral program available in fashion merchandising. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 IL, the home state for Western Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives	70,300	$68,510

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 IlliniGradResearch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.