Program Overview: The Apparel, Textiles and Merchandising program offers professional preparation with a scholarly foundation for professionals seeking industry positions in merchandising (such as buying, management, and product development) and in academe. The program focuses on textile and apparel products, their processes of innovation, production, distribution, promotion, diffusion, and consumption. The ATM masters program provides a strong foundation for students who plan to continue with doctoral study. Students select tracks of study in either historic textiles and apparel OR consumption and merchandising. Recommended areas of concentration include art, art history, interdisciplinary arts, business, communication, education/statistics, psychology, and sociology. Graduate students will be encouraged to do multidisciplinary research when appropriate. Students are required to have completed a basic textiles course (comparable to HCRM 315) and an apparel analysis course (comparable to HCRM 383), or these will be required as pre-requisites to program completion and must be completed during the first year of graduate study at Ohio University.

Admissions Policy: The following materials are required for admission to a Master’s Degree Program in the Department of Human and Consumer Sciences Education:

• A Bachelor of Science or Arts degree from an accredited college or university.
• A minimum of 20 quarter hours or 13 semester hours of undergraduate preparation in the specific or closely related program to the graduate major
• A completed Graduate Admissions Application and non refundable application fee 
• Official Academic Transcripts  
• Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores
• Letter of Intent and Statement of Goals
• Resume/Vitae
• Three (3) letters of recommendation, 
• Application for Graduate Assistantship (if desired)
• Evidence of English proficiency, international students

Change Policy: No selective or limited admission requirements.

Transfer Policy: No requirements beyond University admission requirements.

Opportunities: The ATM masters program provides a strong foundation for students who plan to continue with doctoral study. Additionally, graduates of the program seek careers in the fashion industry and historical venues such as costume museums.