What is the abbreviation for associate's degree in fashion design?

Answer 1: There are, at most colleges and universities, only two basic abbreviations for associate degrees, no matter the specific major: The "Associate of Arts" (AA) degree, and the "Associate of Science" (AS) degree. Period.

So, at most schools, if the associate degree is in "fasion design," and if the degree were an associate of arts degree (which it most likely would), then the way to write/designate it would be "Associate of Arts (AA) in Fasion Design."

However, a fashion design degree is more likely to be something that a career college, and not an academic college, would offer. And career colleges sometimes designate degrees a little differently. It's conceivable that, for example, a career college might call its associate of arts in fashion design degree an "AAF" or even "AAFD" or something like that. It really is up to the school, and its accreditor, how the degrees are designated.

Another possibility is that the associates degree in fashion design could be an "Associate of Applied Science" (AAS) degree. If so, then the degree designation could be "Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Fashion Design." Or, if a career college offered it, perhaps something like "AASF" or even "AASFD". Frankly, I doubt that any credible and accredited school would ever designate a degree like that, but anything's possible.

Regarding AAS degrees, though: Avoid them if you think you'll ever want to get a degree beyond the AAS; for example, if you think you'd ever like to go on and get a bachelors degree. The reason is that an AAS degree is a career (as opposed to academic) educational credential; and, as such, it contains much less of what's called "lower division general education" (LDGE) than does a typical academic AA or AS degree. AAS degrees are shy on LDGE so that more of the degree's 60 to 66 semester credit hours may be devoted to the major; which, for terminal career degrees, is fine. But if one ever wanted to go on and get a bachelors, then one would learn, the hard way, that one's AAS was so shy on LDGE that at least a semester, to maybe a semester plus a summer session or two, would need to be devoted to just getting caught-up on the LDGE before the bachelors degree work may be begun.

AAS degrees are fine to prepare someone for a career in whatever is the AAS's major; and as long as that's the only degree that one will ever get, its academically-insufficient amount of LDGE is no problem. But AAS degrees don't transfer well into academic bachelors programs because they contain sometimes as little as half or even less the normal up to 45 semester credit hours of LDGE that a typical AA or AS degree has.

So, if the fashion design associates degree in which you're interested is an AAS, then only pursue it if you're pretty darned sure that it'll be the only degree you'll ever get. If you think there's even a remote possibility of your ever wanting to get a bachelors, then by all means make sure that your associates is an academic AA or AS, and not a career AAS.