BA (Hons) International Fashion Business

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International Fashion Business forms an overarching role that brings together the creative, cultural, global and business sectors in fashion. The emphasis of this course centres on building business innovation, solution development and identifying opportunities within the fashion industry. Learning includes world topics around ethics, operations and management, sustainability and culture in an ever-growing global marketplace.

This course will introduce you to the fashion business, giving you a fundamental knowledge of the industry from varying international perspectives.

Students can look forward to learning business skills such as operations management, cross-cultural management, fashion supply and distribution, financial planning fashion cycles, social and economic developments in fashion and much more.

International Fashion Business is an innovative course that develops critical thinking and learning strategies for the fashion business. You will be encouraged to collaborate across our fashion cluster courses and external partners.

Studying this course will allow you to be creative using innovation to conduct new ways of operating in fashion on a global scale. Prepare to be inspired.

Our International Fashion Business degree will give you a broad knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of essential fashion business topics with international context such as:

• Fashion business
• Supply chain management
• Fashion economics
• Strategic design
• Fashion culture and politics
• Fashion business ethics and sustainability

You will have the opportunity to learn new creative processes and skills that could lead to several outputs such as launching a business, developing a consultant deck, launching a campaign and much more.

Key to many careers and employers - you will also develop thinking skills, including ideas and concept generation for Fashion, individual and collaborative responses to set fashion projects, critical thinking, and appreciation of multiple perspectives and approaches. Other skills for life and work include effective management and organisation of time, communication, computer literacy (MS Office & Adobe), interpersonal and group skills.

• Tawjihi: 60% for Foundation
• 3 x AS Levels: Foundation
• US High School Diploma: GPA 2.0 for Foundation
• US High School Diploma: GPA 3.0 + SAT1 1070 for Direct Entry to Bachelor's
• International Baccalaureate (IB): 25 points with minimum 15 at Higher Level for Direct Entry to Bachelor's
• 3 x A Levels: Direct Entry to Bachelor's

Studying our BA International Fashion Business will improve graduate level outcomes because of a mandatory placement, increasing industry connections on this new programme. Together with the changes introduced in the Professional Life strand, our student’s confidence and ability to be successful in the graduate job market will improve.

Destination of leavers from higher education (DLHE) data shows that students who took a placement year are 85.7% more successful at getting a job after graduating.

This programme will support students already in employment to progress with greater knowledge of business and entrepreneurism that can lead to new ideas/ innovation for their own business or career progression onto more management type roles.

Career opportunities following this course include management and senior level fashion and business roles, consultant, freelancer, business owner.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.