Two leading Web publications that help match students with colleges and universities named Brenau University’s fashion design and fashion merchandising programs among the top in the nation – listings that include some of the 900-pound gorillas in the industry like Parsons, Fashion Institute of Technology and Rhode Island School of Design.

Fashion-Schools.org, the national online clearing house for information about colleges and universities for students interested in fashion industry careers named Brenau No. 67 in the nation in fashion merchandising and No. 75 in fashion design in its recently published “Fashionista” issue listing the Top Fashion Schools in the United States.

Also, education-portal.com cited Brenau’s fashion merchandising program in the Top 20 listing of the Top Fashion Marketing Colleges in the country. Only two other Georgia institutions, the University of Georgia and Savannah College of Art and Design, made the list.