The program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania acknowledges this by providing courses that emphasize apparel merchandising and promotion, apparel production and distribution, ready-to-wear analysis, quality control in production, textiles and textile testing, historic costume, aesthetics, global issues in textiles and apparel, and visual merchandising.

The Fashion Merchandising curriculum consists of university liberal studies requirements, fashion merchandising core courses and electives, and a specific business concentration. Upon completion of all academic requirements, the students earn a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fashion Merchandising.

The Eberly College of Business complements the fashion merchandising major by providing the business concentrations of Business Administration, Marketing, and Small Business Management. Students can earn a minor in business administration. Emphasis is also placed on knowledge of computers and mathematics.