USNWR Fine Arts rankings are: (i) for Graduate programs; (ii) outdated by more than 5 years, and (iii) generated by very suspect metrics. Also, fashion design/merchandising was not even a ranking category for those.
In addition to intelligent, unbiased suggestions made by others above, consider RISD. Know the rap about expense and competitiveness, but the school is strong in most departments and, for the toy-designer, is tied in to Hasbro, among others, in Providence/New England.