Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has one fashion marketing school within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Virginia Commonwealth University has a total student population of 32,172. It is the 222nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Virginia (#1 is Washington and Lee University). To learn more about fashion marketing programs in Virginia Beach, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of fashion marketing professors at Virginia Commonwealth University such as James Barton, Mary Burruss, Robert Clay, Michael Clubb, Jodie Ferguson, and Frank Franzak.
Fashion Marketing students from Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 330 employed merchandise displayers and window trimmers earning an average salary of $28,350. Marketing managers in this area earn $93,980/yr and there are 430 employed.
Virginia Beach lies in Virginia Beach county, which is one of the 61 counties in Virginia. Overall, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area has 735,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $19.28/hr average worker wage, and a $40,100 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.581 out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by marketing managers, and 0.453/1000 are held by merchandise displayers and window trimmers.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Virginia Commonwealth University ends up costing a student $15,907/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Virginia Beach |
| Chesapeake | VA | 223,315 | 5 | 26.9533 | 56 | 15.5 miles |
| Norfolk | VA | 234,477 | 11 | 21.2525 | 420 | 16.7 miles |
| Portsmouth | VA | 102,540 | 2 | 19.0088 | 64 | 19.6 miles |
| Hampton | VA | 147,560 | 2 | 15.4443 | 49 | 25.5 miles |
| Suffolk | VA | 84,501 | 2 | 10.9214 | 2 | 33.4 miles |
| Newport News | VA | 182,057 | 4 | 29.3064 | 58 | 35.1 miles |
| Petersburg | VA | - | 3 | 33.8633 | 70 | 82.5 miles |
| Weldon | NC | - | 1 | 13.6824 | 51 | 89.1 miles |
| Highland Springs | VA | - | 1 | 3.25189 | 0 | 90.3 miles |
| Richmond | VA | 198,179 | 22 | 25.9212 | 685 | 95.9 miles |