Textile & Apparel Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #122 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for textile & apparel studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 52 bachelor's degrees in textile & apparel studies to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to textile & apparel studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other textile & apparel studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for textile & apparel studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized textile & apparel studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for textile & apparel studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in textile & apparel studies. Louisiana State University is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the textile studies program earn around $26,004 in the first couple years of working.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
