<p>Anyone have any good info on the retail management major? is it more business? Because I want to go into fashion merchandising, and take fashion classes still, not so much business...but I coud do that at 'cuse cause they have fashion design classes too... right?</p>
<p>I think you have to be a fashion design major to take fashion design classes. You should call the school and check.</p>
<p>retail management is based mainly on Retail.. not just fashion. it could be selling anything.
you could dual major in fashion design and retail management...</p>
<p>I just graduated from Syracuse with a BA in retail management so I can pretty much tell you anything you need to know...</p>
<p>It started off being the the Visual and Performing Arts college with a greater emphasis on fashion ect, but then they changed the whole program my junior year and brought it to the business school which means its A LOT for business oriented.</p>
<p>For me, I would have LOVED to have graduated form the management school as its in the top 20 and looks really good when finding a job, so I was kind of mad that I did all of the same work as the management students yet only got a VPA degree but oh well. </p>
<p>If you are more interested in fashion design that is still in the VPA school and you will do a lot less business type classes and more studio classes.</p>
<p>Overall its a great program and is small but in a good way. I know every professor in the program and still email them all the time so it makes being at a HUGE school a little less daunting, esp if u are coming from a smaller school where all the teachers know ur name.</p>
<p>Not to burst your bubble, but fashion is not as glamorous and "easy" as it seems. Fashion Merchandising requires a strong business knowledge. For example I had to take accounting, marketing, law, economics, ect </p>
<p>My best suggestion for you would be to email someone in the department and tell them what you are looking to do, and they can point you in the right direction in terms of the Retail Management major vs. the Fashion Major </p>
<p>P.S. With either major you can do a semester in London at the London College of Fashion, I highly recommend it</p>
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