Sustainable Fashion BA

Course overview

By studying Sustainable Fashion, you’ll explore the cultural, social and industrial factors that shape the fashion sector now, and what sustainability in fashion can mean in the future.

Through a multidisciplinary approach to teaching, you’ll explore the complex system that is fashion. You’ll identify the environmental and social challenges fashion faces from the perspective of consumers, workers, business and the planet. Your studies will help you develop the skills to explore and identify alternative sustainable solutions for the industry.

The course has been designed to challenge your understanding of sustainability and fashion. By doing so it will give you the creative skills to tackle sustainability from a global, cultural, and business perspective, so you can develop sustainable products and strategies that can deliver green fashion that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of the global fashion world. As a graduate from this programme, you will be fashioning the future of the industry and its delivery of a more sustainable way of working for years to come.

Scholarships for 2025 Entry

The Clothworkers' Company are managing three scholarships for UK students to support textiles by funding technical education, skills development and innovative design.

Entry requirements

A-level: ABB

GCSE: 5/6 A-C (or 4+) including English.

International Baccalaureate

Career opportunities

This degree is designed to equip you with a wide range of skills that are highly desirable to employers in the fashion industry and the wider sustainability community, as well as providing transferable skills, flexibility, resilience which are desirable across many professional careers. In the School of Design, as well as providing you with research led, industry informed subject-specific knowledge, we aim to equip you with the best possible skills for a variety of careers. System thinking, combined with excellent research and criticality skills are increasingly valued across a wide range of sectors; therefore, your degree from the University of Leeds opens opportunities across disciplines and multiple industries, as well as in your course-related specialism.

You’ll have an understanding of the role of sustainable strategies and how these can be translated a design into a workable practical solutions for products, businesses, industry and society. You'll be able to put all of this into the global context of the people who make fashion products and the consumers who wear them using tools such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

With the holistic knowledge of product development, fashion technology, the supply chain and the industry provided by the programme, you will be equipped to succeed in a range of different careers with clothing brands and retailers, sustainability specialists and policy makers. These roles could include buying, product development, technology, retail and supply chain management among many others.