Jacksonville, FL (population: 822,401) has twenty-four fashion marketing schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. University of Georgia, the highest ranked school in this group with a fashion marketing program, has a total student population of 34,885. It is the 38th highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state . To learn more about fashion marketing programs in Jacksonville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion marketing professors at University of Georgia such as Barbara Carroll, Sunil Contractor, Tucker Cox, Jenna Drenten, H. Kevin Ellis, and Peggy Emmelhainz.
Fashion Marketing students from Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville area alone, there are 110 employed merchandise displayers and window trimmers earning an average salary of $31,050. Marketing managers in this area earn $118,950/yr and there are 360 employed.
Jacksonville lies in Duval county, which is one of the 49 counties in Florida. Overall, the Jacksonville area has 581,450 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $39,460 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in Jacksonville are held by marketing managers, and 0/1000 are held by merchandise displayers and window trimmers.
Of the 24 fashion marketing schools with a 500-mile radius of Jacksonville, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Bauder College comes out as the most expensive ($48,186/yr) for fashion marketing students, with Lindsey Hopkins Technical Education Center as the lowest, reported at only $774/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Jacksonville |
| Orange Park | FL | - | 3 | 22.5405 | 26 | 11.7 miles |
| Saint Augustine | FL | - | 2 | 46.0117 | 74 | 36.6 miles |
| Palm Coast | FL | 76,000 | 0 | - | 0 | 59.1 miles |
| Gainesville | FL | 116,277 | 8 | 23.682 | 358 | 61.2 miles |
| Waycross | GA | - | 2 | 12.3956 | 59 | 73.7 miles |
| Ocala | FL | 57,520 | 3 | 20.3525 | 108 | 83.8 miles |
| Daytona Beach | FL | 63,815 | 4 | 31.0595 | 184 | 86.9 miles |
| South Daytona | FL | - | 1 | 30.9321 | 7 | 89.6 miles |
| Deland | FL | - | 2 | 24.7322 | 98 | 92.6 miles |