Fashion Design BA(Hons)

About the course

Fashion Design BA(Hons) offers a stimulating, creative programme of study to help you develop the aesthetic, intellectual and inter-disciplinary skills necessary for fashion design. It focuses on contemporary fashion design, with a marketing or textiles specialism and includes garment production techniques and methods for womenswear, menswear, and gender-neutral clothing.

You’ll learn from staff with professional experience in the fashion industry, and use cutting-edge equipment located in our purpose-built £30-million specialist building.

Why study Fashion Design BA(Hons)

The range of modules, that are integrated into the course are designed to challenge, stimulate and foster aesthetic, product, sustainable, ethical and critical thinking. Alumna Sian Gabbidon went on to win BBC's The Apprentice and is now CEO of sianmarie.com.

On this course, you’ll develop professional skills in fashion design, portfolio techniques, computer aided design (CAD), pattern cutting and garment construction.

We’ll also:

• Support you in the application of a range of industry standard technology to bring your ideas to life, including software that will enable you to produce professional fashion marketing or textile materials.
• Provide an industry-facing approach, which gives you the opportunity to undertake a placement year to help prepare you for a career in this exciting and diverse industry.

You may go on to pursue a role in fashion, art, design, environmental sustainability, clothing production, tailoring, woven textiles, crafts, and more. Computer aided manufacture, visual communication, knitwear technology, printed textiles, and fashion merchandising are also viable routes, as are fashion promotion, 3D design, and design technology.

Entry requirements

Offers will be subject to a digital portfolio review, after which you will be invited to attend an Applicant Visit Day, at which you will have the opportunity to discuss and be given feedback on your portfolio. Read more about the portfolio review process on our Interviews, auditions and portfolio pages.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.