Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM)

Admissions contact: Carolyn Crawford-Mercado, College Representative Community & Educational Affairs

Phone: (951) 232-0522

Email: [email protected]

Website: fidm.edu

What students should know:  “We’re located in downtown Los Angeles. We offer associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees and master’s degrees. We have about 46 different creative design majors. Everything from fashion design to interior design, to graphics to film, 3D animation, marketing, and we have a business program.  As of last week, we acquired a partnership with ASU, so Arizona State University is now in conjunction with our visual creative design program. Students that want to go to a creative school, but also have the opportunity to do Cal Grants and everything from my Cal State system, they will now have the opportunity with us. To transfer they would just apply through admissions, submit their transfer paperwork to talk to an admissions rep about the degree that they’re most looking for, and then they’ll have to share a portfolio of their work so we can kind of see where their creative abilities land, and then help place them in the right track.”