Schools with costume design major?

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i want to be a costume designer with my own business after college, but i can't find any schools (in NY please, and not FIT) with costumeing as a major, or even a minor. i'm currently enrolled as a fashion design student but i really don't like it; it's too focused on big NYC fashion. i'm thinking of waitng until after i take pattern drafting to change my major to English, which i like and has tons of electives, where as fashion has, like none. should i just deal with the fashion program, or should i change majors?
and yes i asked this question before but only got one answer. please, if you know of anyschools that offer costume desing, tell me!! or if you are a costumer, let me know what you did!!!

Answer 1

A friend of mine majored in English and theater for his undergrad, then did his graduate MFA in costume design at New York University. If you decide not to transfer, perhaps you can do something similar?

My sister majored in fashion at Emerson, and ended up with a job making and designing costumes for the Boston Ballet. Sweet. Another friend majored in tech theater/costuming via the theater department at UMass Amherst, and she now is one of the top wigs people in the film industry.

If you know that costume design is what you want to do, then do transfer. What year are you now?

Your best bet may be to finish out the year at your current school, in your existing program, and then try to get a summer job in costuming or sewing at a summer stock theater. These theaters recruit from January through April, for positions that usually begin in May or June. This will allow you to experience theatrical costume design first-hand, and see if you like it. You'll also make contacts in the field, and can talk to the other costumers about their schools. And you may find that you don't even need to transfer schools - working summers in the theatre, and attending your current program in the school year, may be a nice combo.

You're in New York now, yes? I assume you'd prefer to stay in the northeast region. Some costume design programs are at the following schools. If you were to transfer, you could look at these programs:

Carnegie Mellon
Yale
Smith
UMass Amherst
Boston University
Dartmouth
SUNY Binghamton
Cornell
SUNY Purchase
Syracuse
Brooklyn College
Long Island University (CW Post)
New York University
SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Geneseo
Rutgers
Montclair State U




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I think Cornell may have a fashion/costume design major of some sort. It's probably in the school of Architecture, Art, and Planning; here's an article: http://admitspit.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/how-x-does-academics-x-cornell/
Definitely check the Cornell website (http://www.cornell.edu) and look around for some info on costume design.

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Schools with costume design major?
i want to be a costume designer with my own business after college, but i can't find any schools (in NY please, and not FIT) with costumeing as a major, or even a minor. i'm currently enrolled as a fashion design student but i really don't like it; it's too focused on big NYC...

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