Memphis, TN (population: 662,989) has four fashion marketing schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Harding University, the highest ranked school in this group with a fashion marketing program, has a total student population of 6,484. It is the 224th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Arkansas. To learn more about fashion marketing programs in Memphis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion marketing professors at Harding University such as Rich Brown, Mark Davis, Lori Sloan, and Steve Williams.
Fashion Marketing students from Memphis 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 Memphis-MS-AR area alone, there are 200 employed merchandise displayers and window trimmers earning an average salary of $28,260. Marketing managers in this area earn $99,640/yr and there are 1,140 employed.
Memphis lies in Shelby county, which is one of the 26 counties in Tennessee. Overall, the Memphis-MS-AR area has 605,630 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $18.93/hr average worker wage, and a $39,380 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.887 out of every 1000 jobs in Memphis are held by marketing managers, and 0.331/1000 are held by merchandise displayers and window trimmers.
Of the 4 fashion marketing schools with a 100-mile radius of Memphis, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lambuth University comes out as the most expensive ($15,377/yr) for fashion marketing students, with Northeast Mississippi Community College as the lowest, reported at only $6,099/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Memphis |
| Southaven | MS | 47,625 | 1 | 27.9087 | 11 | 9.7 miles |
| Bartlett | TN | 47,744 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.3 miles |
| Senatobia | MS | - | 1 | 17.4796 | 114 | 34.1 miles |
| Jonesboro | AR | 66,734 | 1 | 24.4204 | 8 | 62.3 miles |
| State University | AR | - | 1 | 57.8251 | 135 | 63.1 miles |