14 Fashion Merchandising Preparatory Programs

Fashion merchandising requires the combination of the creative and business skill sets. Strategy and marketing know how are essential for the skilled professional. Fashion merchandising requires good analytical, communication, and visual skill sets.

The Apparel Design And Merchandising (ADAM) Program is an affordable industry-driven curriculum that meets current trends and technology in an ever-expanding field. ADAM offers the opportunity for a creative and financially stable career in the fashion industry.

This course teaches you about essential but non-obvious facets of the retail industry, including marketing, merchandising and distribution. We show you techniques to rack up impressive sales in a retail environment, from savvy pricing that increases foot traffic to effective in-store marketing. Whether you run your own small business or work for a large company, this course in retail management can boost your sales skills and career.

The Fashion Design and Retail Merchandising program will provide area students with a two-year pathway to the vast fashion and retail industry in nearby Central Ohio.

Fashion merchandising students learn and experience each step of the development, promotion, and sales of fashion and lifestyle product lines. Fashion trends are identified and analyzed in order to understand the direction of product development, the positioning in the marketplace, the importance of proper sales representation via visual presentation, advertising, public relations, and social media in the fashion cycle from initial concept to brickn-mortar and e-commerce sales.

The qualification Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising is designed for those working in or wishing to work as a fashion designer or in a support role.

At Berkeley College, you’ll learn to succeed in the fashion business from those who already have. You’ll benefit from a faculty with extensive professional experience, as well as close proximity to one of the world’s great fashion districts. Our Fashion Merchandising and Management degree programs focus on the business side of the fashion industry, training you in all aspects of the complete fashion global supply chain—current technologies, consumer behavior, product development, merchandising, retail distribution, marketing, and sales.

The diploma course of Visual Merchandising and Fashion Stylist will teach you the frameworks to identify the needs of the sector and how to quickly adapt to them.

The Fashion Merchandising option of the Business Management A.A.S. degree prepares students for careers in fashion/apparel sales, marketing, buying, and merchandising. Positions available to those with this educational specialization include retail merchandiser, planning and allocation, fashion/apparel sourcing specialist, and wholesale or retail buying manager.

Do you have an appreciation for fashion and the popular and unique trends we see across the internet and in fashion magazines? Do you have an artistic eye when putting together an outfit? If you want to turn your passion into a career and get a fashion degree, our Fashion Design and Merchandising program can help you start off on the right foot. Upon completing this program, you can enter the exciting world of fashion merchandising as a wholesale and retail buyer, sales rep, online merchant, merchandise displayer, window trimmer, and more! With continued education, you’ll be qualified to become a purchasing or supply chain manager.

From conception and development through communication and selling merchandise, this major will prepare you to take your fashion career in almost any direction.

This qualification covers the skills and knowledge required to work as assistant designers and specialist production technicians, such as patternmakers and sewing machinists, who support design and production within the clothing and fashion industry.

The visual merchandiser education is an exciting and inspiring journey into a world of visual enchantment. Our visual merchandiser education is your springboard to a career where you not only create aesthetic and beautiful store environments but also understand the psychology behind sales and customers’ decision-making process.

Do you want to work as a Visual Merchandiser in the future trade where the physical and the digital are combined? This training gives you the skills to work both practically and strategically with visual communication of store concepts in both a digital and physical landscape.