The Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design averages over 400 undergraduate students and more than 50 graduate students. To learn more about the focus of the department, read our common purpose statement. We offer the following academic programs:

• Bachelor of science in apparel and textiles (apparel design or apparel marketing specializations)
• Bachelor of science in interior design
• Graduate Programs

The Department promotes success among its faculty, students and alumni through high standards and expectations:

• Our programs share a common responsibility to teach within a human ecological framework and to give considerable attention to environmental ethics and social responsibility within the disciplines and professions we represent.
• Our faculty members share a commitment to excellence in scholarship in its many diverse forms including discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
• Our students in all programs are encouraged to become active learners and take advantage of diverse learning experiences including internships, study abroad, field trips, and study tours.

These high standards have resulted in our programs receiving national recognitions, our students and faculty winning numerous national awards, and our graduates earning top positions in national companies across the globe.

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ATID News

Telefund: a blue ribbon year (Thank you, donors)

Students, faculty and staff pitched in to pull in $108,274 during this year’s Telefund. Students – at least 233 of them – called alumni and wrote cards to those they couldn’t reach by phone. Nearly 40 faculty and staff showed up to assist and support the students. Last year’s effort raised just over $100,000. The [...]

Haar, students earn apparel design honors

Sherry Haar, associate professor in the Department of Apparel, Textiles and Interior Design, and two students displayed their design work in the juried 2011 Exhibition of the International Textile and Apparel Association this winter in Philadelphia. Haar showed three wearable art forms from her From the Garden series. She also received the Sandra Hutton Award [...]

Student designers take home cash, internship prizes in Cotton Challenge

Models sashayed down the runway last week in the K-State Union wearing cotton garments ranging from jeans to evening wear, the culmination of a semester-long cotton project for 27 apparel and textiles students. Winning student designers, who also constructed their own original garments, took home cash, gift certificates and internships for their creative efforts. Allison [...]

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