South San Francisco, CA (population: 64,345) has thirteen fashion marketing schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. California College of the Arts, the highest ranked school in this group with a fashion marketing program, has a total student population of 1,828. It is the 3265th highest ranked school in the USA and the 312th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles).
Fashion Marketing students from South San Francisco schools who go on to become fashion marketers, fashion merchandisers, marketers, fashion models, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 169,330 people working as marketing managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $120,070. Also, Merchandise displayers and window trimmers make on average $28,480 per year and there are about 61,280 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area alone, there are 560 employed merchandise displayers and window trimmers earning an average salary of $34,500. Marketing managers in this area earn $157,240/yr and there are 4,330 employed.
South San Francisco lies in San Mateo county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City Metropolitan area has 982,930 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $30/hr average worker wage, and a $61,940 average annual salary. Thus, about 4 out of every 1000 jobs in South San Francisco are held by marketing managers, and 1/1000 are held by merchandise displayers and window trimmers.
Of the 13 fashion marketing schools with a 100-mile radius of South San Francisco, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of California–Sunnyvale comes out as the most expensive ($32,611/yr) for fashion marketing students, with City College of San Francisco as the lowest, reported at only $4,129/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from South San Francisco |
San Francisco | CA | 817,411 | 21 | 17.5697 | 455 | 7.8 miles |
San Mateo | CA | 93,990 | 1 | 15.1982 | 101 | 9.2 miles |
Alameda | CA | 71,628 | 3 | 11.6549 | 62 | 11.6 miles |
Oakland | CA | 412,612 | 12 | 26.3295 | 321 | 13.3 miles |
San Leandro | CA | 78,904 | 1 | 29.9223 | 11 | 15.2 miles |
Berkeley | CA | 102,237 | 13 | 2.98519 | 59 | 16.7 miles |
Hayward | CA | 145,517 | 6 | 17.5402 | 239 | 17.6 miles |
Castro Valley | CA | 65,952 | 0 | - | 0 | 20.0 miles |
Union City | CA | 76,462 | 1 | 13.7752 | 0 | 22.3 miles |
Fremont | CA | 207,431 | 5 | 26.457 | 262 | 24.7 miles |
Walnut Creek | CA | 64,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 26.6 miles |
Dublin | CA | 46,208 | 3 | 13.8145 | 117 | 28.2 miles |
Sunnyvale | CA | 135,564 | 4 | 17.5213 | 21 | 28.4 miles |
Concord | CA | 122,338 | 7 | 21.1076 | 136 | 31.4 miles |
Santa Clara | CA | 112,889 | 4 | 29.9373 | 188 | 31.8 miles |
Vallejo | CA | 114,029 | 1 | 31.5233 | 11 | 32.3 miles |
Milpitas | CA | 69,900 | 1 | 18.2292 | 19 | 33.1 miles |
Pittsburg | CA | 67,613 | 2 | 20.7913 | 157 | 38.2 miles |
San Jose | CA | 977,893 | 9 | 20.6572 | 297 | 40.0 miles |
Antioch | CA | 102,439 | 2 | 25.0238 | 14 | 40.8 miles |
Napa | CA | 75,759 | 1 | 15.1485 | 56 | 44.8 miles |
Fairfield | CA | 104,184 | 9 | 23.8893 | 386 | 45.8 miles |
Santa Cruz | CA | 57,690 | 2 | 37.6705 | 80 | 52.1 miles |
Stockton | CA | 291,422 | 7 | 28.794 | 278 | 64.3 miles |
Salida | CA | - | 2 | 26.0837 | 19 | 73.1 miles |
Laguna | CA | 60,976 | 0 | - | 0 | 75.7 miles |
West Sacramento | CA | 50,542 | 1 | 29.8049 | 4 | 78.2 miles |
Modesto | CA | 203,882 | 4 | 24.9737 | 137 | 78.3 miles |
Woodland | CA | 56,758 | 0 | - | 0 | 78.9 miles |
Ceres | CA | 43,443 | 0 | - | 0 | 80.1 miles |