Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has thirty-three fashion marketing schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, the highest ranked school in this group with a fashion marketing program, has a total student population of 51,659. It is the 31st highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Minnesota. To learn more about fashion marketing programs in Omaha, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion marketing professors at University of Minnesota such as Rohini Ahluwalia, Neil Bendle, Tony Cui, Robert Hansen, Sunil Kishore, and Jay Lipe.
Fashion Marketing students from Omaha 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 Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area alone, there are 120 employed merchandise displayers and window trimmers earning an average salary of $26,750. Marketing managers in this area earn $118,500/yr and there are 550 employed.
Omaha lies in Douglas county, which is one of the 40 counties in Nebraska. Overall, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area has 452,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.23/hr average worker wage, and a $40,000 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.219 out of every 1000 jobs in Omaha are held by marketing managers, and 0.259/1000 are held by merchandise displayers and window trimmers.
Of the 33 fashion marketing schools with a 500-mile radius of Omaha, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, School of the Art Institute of Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($38,965/yr) for fashion marketing students, with Joliet Junior College as the lowest, reported at only $4,130/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Omaha |
| Papillion | NE | - | 1 | 19.7538 | 14 | 7.5 miles |
| Council Bluffs | IA | 59,918 | 3 | 15.2545 | 57 | 7.9 miles |
| Lincoln | NE | 257,612 | 13 | 28.3679 | 496 | 46.7 miles |
| Peru | NE | - | 1 | 16.7679 | 31 | 56.2 miles |
| Crete | NE | - | 1 | 28.8976 | 48 | 66.3 miles |
| Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 88.0 miles |