MERCHANDISING MANAGEMENT at Oregon State University

Can you see yourself working for a brand or retailer to develop, present, and manage the product assortments they offer to consumers? Merchandisers play an instrumental role in ensuring that brands and retailers offer consumers what they want, whether it is in fashion goods such as clothing and footwear or consumer products and packaged goods like food and beverage, cosmetics, and cleaning products.

We prepare you for careers related to the development and presentation of customer-right merchandise. You’ll develop skills in fashion forecasting, market analysis, design thinking, retail and merchandising analytics, and visual merchandising through coursework and hands-on projects.

You will also graduate with a solid business foundation through courses such as global sourcing, entrepreneurship, marketing, consumer behavior, and more.

A quality education guided by industry standards — our program is ranked as one of the top-five fashion merchandising programs on the west coast.

We offer merchandising management as a design major program or minor of study in Corvallis, as a minor to supplement any major in Corvallis, or as an option for business administration majors in Corvallis.