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Do you want to expand your knowledge of product development and production? Are you interested in a variety of professional career options?

Fashion merchandising covers most aspects of the fashion industry, from the fashion designer to, manufacturers, distributors, marketers, and end the retailers. Students in our program have a vast range of experiences including study abroad, trips to companies and apparel markets, creating visual displays for local retailers, and interacting with industry professionals.

Merchandising with an interiors focus covers most aspects of the home interiors and furnishing industry from home furnishing designers, to manufacturers, distributors, marketers, and retailers. Students have a vast range of experiences that may include study abroad, trips to companies and interior markets (for example: the High Point Market), creating visual displays for local retailers, and interacting with industry professionals.

ECU Advantage

Fashion merchandising jobs ranging from producing, product development, promoting, and buying and selling fashion items and interior goods. Our graduates, for example, are employed in furniture design firms, architectural firms, small merchants, and large retailers such as Crate and Barrel, J Crew, and Nordstrom.

What You Will Study

Program Coordinator: Runying Chen (334 Rivers Building; 252-328-1329; chenr@ecu.edu)

Students can declare the fashion merchandising and consumer studies major upon entry to the university or at any time if they are in good academic standing. Throughout the program students must make a C (2.0) or better in all MRCH major courses. In order to register for all 4000-level courses, students must have a minimum overall 2.5 GPA.

The degree requires a minimum of 120 s.h. as follows:

1. General education requirements including those listed below - 40 s.h.

(For information about courses that carry general education credit view the General Education Program section.)

  • ECON 2113 - Principles of Microeconomics
  • PSYC 1000 - Introductory Psychology
  • MATH 1050 - Explorations in Mathematics or higher
2. Core - 49 s.h.
  • MRCH 1135 - Introduction to Fashion
  • MRCH 2034 - Textiles
  • MRCH 2035 - Textiles Laboratory
  • MRCH 2239 - Fashion and Culture
  • MRCH 2350 - Merchandising Strategies
  • MRCH 2500 - Fashion History
  • MRCH 2883 - Pre-Professional Seminar
  • MRCH 3050 - Apparel Product Development
  • MRCH 3200 - Consumer Studies in Merchandising
  • MRCH 3300 - E-Fashion
  • MRCH 3350 - Merchandising Analysis
  • MRCH 3400 - Visual Merchandising, Planning, and Operations

  • MRCH 3883 - Merchandising Internship I OR
  • MRCH 3885 - Fall Merchandising Internship I

  • MRCH 4300 - Global Economics: Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Furnishing Industries
  • MRCH 4350 - Merchandise, Planning, Buying and Sourcing

  • MRCH 4883 - Merchandising Internship II OR
  • MRCH 4885 - Fall Merchandising Internship II

  • MRCH 4999 - Merchandising Capstone: Executing the Concept
    • Select one of the following:
    • MRCH 3003 - Special Topics
    • MRCH 4209 - Directed Study: Research in Merchandising
3. Minor or certificate - 18-30 s.h.

Choose one of the following minors:

Or choose the Entrepreneurship Certificate and 12 s.h. of advisor approved electives.

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    4. Electives to complete requirements for graduation.
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