Minor in Fashion Merchandising Pursue Your Passion for Fashion

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100% online, 8-week courses

Transfer in up to 75% of the minor total

Available Spring 2025

Supplement your primary degree and dive into the world of fashion with Liberty’s online Minor in Fashion Merchandising! This minor offers a well-rounded look at many aspects of the fashion industry, from trend analysis to sustainable practices. You can explore valuable knowledge and tools that may be applicable to a variety of career paths, including retail management, marketing, product development, and more.

Fashion merchandising is a broad, exciting field that encompasses numerous different job roles, such as buyers, fashion marketing specialists, product developers, sustainability coordinators, and visual merchandisers. By earning your fashion studies minor, you can learn about many of the theories and practical techniques used to help companies and brands promote their products, attract customers, and boost sales.


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  • Transfer in up to 75% of an Undergrad Degree
  • Transfer in up to 50% of a Grad/Doctoral Degree

Our fashion minor is offered 100% online with no set login times, providing you with the flexibility to fit your coursework into your schedule. Not only that, but you can take classes that are firmly rooted in an ethical approach to the fashion world. That way, you can train to make an impact through your future career while upholding biblical values and integrity!

With a fashion merchandising minor, you can expand your undergraduate studies beyond the realm of your bachelor’s degree and diversify your skill set. This minor may pair especially well with the BS in Business Administration and Data Analysis, as you can merge your business acumen with fashion principles to help brands increase their sales.

Another option could be to take this minor alongside the BS in Strategic Communication, allowing you to pair knowledge of the fashion industry with effective communication skills to help fashion lines improve their marketing and public relations strategies.


Within this fashion merchandising minor, you’ll explore the fundamentals of management, including the process of planning, organizing, and leading various functions. You’ll also dive into marketing theories and tools, buyer behavior, marketing data, and sales predictions. By studying these business and marketing subjects, you can gain knowledge that is applicable across many industries – including fashion.

You’ll also take fashion-specific courses covering topics such as the psychological factors of fashion influence across cultures and people. You can also learn about the textiles and fabrics involved in manufacturing as well as skills needed to conduct market analysis for a broad range of products and retail opportunities.

Beyond that, you’ll analyze various retail merchandising concepts used within creative industries. From buying procedures and inventory control to price and profit analysis, you can learn how to leverage numerous tools to help companies strengthen their merchandising strategies.


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Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for the majority of our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.

To continue our mission of providing affordable education, electronic textbooks are provided for all undergraduate courses at no cost to you. As a full-time student, this could save you an estimated $800-2,000 per year on textbooks!

Undergraduate Full Time $390/Credit
Undergraduate Part Time $455/Credit
Military Undergraduate $250/Credit

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Military

Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe.

Who May Qualify?

  • Active Duty
  • Reserve/National Guard
  • Veterans/Retirees
  • Spouses of Service Members and Veterans/Retirees
  • Current Department of Defense Employees

Available Benefits:

  • Tuition discounts – $250 per credit hour for undergraduate courses
  • Additional discount for veterans who service in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $565 per course)*
  • 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
  • Potential college credit for military training

*Not applicable to certificates.