Thanks to the internet, fashion design school is now available to people living far away from fashion capitals like London, Milan, and New York. Online fashion design colleges let students train at home for exciting careers in fashion, such as coordinating runway shows or maintaining their own lines of clothing. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, most fashion designers earn between $40,000 and $93,000 annually.

Listed below are several online colleges that offer training in fashion design and related fields online.

• The Art Institute of Pittsburgh has an online Bachelor of Science degree program in fashion and retail management.
• Ashworth College has an online associate’s degree program in retail management and a Bachelor of Science degree program in marketing.
• The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising has an online degree in merchandise marketing. Students can apply year-round.
• The Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York, offers an online two-year associate’s degree program in fashion merchandising management. Several similar degrees can be earned through blended (online and offline) learning.
• Penn Foster Career School has online career diploma programs in dressmaking and design as well as interior decorating.
• Savannah College of Art and Design offers a master’s degree in interior design through e-learning.
• Westwood College provides an online bachelor of arts program in interior design through its school of design, and an online bachelor’s in fashion merchandising through its school of business. The school’s accelerated schedule permits students to earn a bachelor’s degree in just three years.