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20th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1179
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1622 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-5198
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Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has five fashion design schools within its city limits. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in the city with a fashion design program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania). To learn more about fashion design programs in Philadelphia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion design professors at Drexel University such as Victoria Barnes, Emil Dejohn, Neil Desnoyers, Francoise Dureese, Troy Finamore, and Stuart Fineman.

Fashion Design students from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 80 employed designers earning an average salary of $45,810. Fashion designers in this area earn $48,890/yr and there are 90 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.051 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by fashion designers, and 0.042/1000 are held by designers.

Of the 5 fashion design schools in Philadelphia, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for fashion design students, with Community College of Philadelphia as the lowest, reported at only $6,012/yr.


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