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Fashion Design Schools in California

California contains 42 schools that offer fashion design programs. Otis College of Art and Design, the highest-ranking fashion design school in CA, has a total student population of 1,221 and is the 436th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 42 fashion design schools in California, only 23 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of California-Inland Empire comes out as the most expensive ($39,200/yr), with Mt San Antonio College as the lowest recorded at only $2,897/yr.

Fashion Design students from California schools who go on to become fashion designers, fashion merchandisers, fashion models, fashion marketers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 15,780 people working as fashion designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $74,410. Also, Designers make on average $50,420 per year and there are about 10,510 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the California alone, there are 2,060 employed designers earning an average yearly salary of $46,690. Fashion designers in this state earn $81,490/yr and there are 4,050 employed.

Also, within the fashion design schools in California, the average student population is 4,206 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from fashion design, there are 18354 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 4,230 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $1,817, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

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