Bachelor of Arts/Science (Hons) - Fashion Business & Management
- 3 years
- Duration
- 17,500 GBP/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Epsom / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
Do you want to dominate the fashion industry? Join our BA/BSc Fashion Business & Management program to gain the knowledge you need to establish yourself as a leader.
This course, which is taught at UCA Epsom's Business School for the Creative Industries, focuses on enhancing your business sense and planning abilities so that you can succeed professionally. You'll graduate with the skills and assurance to excel in any area of business, including buying, merchandising, forecasting, management strategy, PR and marketing, branding, and international trade.
You will learn the foundational concepts of the fashion industry, creative business and management, brand management and promotion, buying and merchandising, during the first year of your degree.
As you study more about professional procedures, visual merchandising, and fashion forecasting in your second year, you'll concentrate on developing your own unique specialised approach to work and be encouraged to start working more autonomously.
You will develop more freedom in your final year, concentrating on independently managed research, study, and practice. After that, you'll put what you've learned to use as you create a distinctive, imaginative, and professionally relevant final major project.
You can enroll in an Integrated International Foundation Year, which was created especially to give international students English language and creative skills before they start their first year of study.
A yearlong Professional Practice Year within the fashion business is another option available to you. This will give you the chance to put what you've studied into practice and advance your knowledge and abilities.
Our graduates are very employable and possess a variety of talents that are in demand in the fashion industry. Former students have advanced in their careers and now work for well-known companies including Topshop, Burberry, and Harrods.
Program structure
Year 1
- Business Bootcamp 1: Design Thinking & Orientation
- Fashion: Theories & Histories
- Foundations of Marketing and Communications
- Economics for the Creative Industries
- Business Seminar 1 – Understanding Consumers
- Business Bootcamp 2: Research and Development
- Fashion Brands and Influence
- Understanding Trends & Forecasting
- Fashion: Business & Practices (elective unit)
- Lifestyle Products: Business & Practices (elective unit)
- Business Seminar 2 – Business Analytics
Year 2
- Business Bootcamp 3: Storytelling and Narrative
- Financial Management
- Fashion Buying
- Range Planning
- Digital Marketing Analytics (elective unit)
- Public Relations (elective unit)
- Gamification & Marketing (elective unit)
- Wearable Technology (elective unit)
- Business Seminar 3: Professional Practice
- Business Bootcamp 4: Exploring Innovation
- Visual & Promotional Merchandising
- Fashion & Identity
- Supply Chain Analysis & Management (elective unit)
- Behavioural Studies and Consumption (elective unit)
- Professional Placement (for students not on Professional Practice Year pathway)
- Creative Innovation (for students on the Professional Practice Year pathway)
- Industry Lecture Series (for students on the Professional Practice Year pathway)
Year 3
- Business Bootcamp 5: Research & Methodologies
- Fashion: Contemporary Issues (elective unit)
- Lifestyle Goods: Contemporary Issues (elective unit)
- Fashion: Global Industry & Futures (elective unit)
- Lifestyle Goods: Global Industry & Futures (elective unit)
- Creative Business Start-up (elective unit BA course)
- Data Mining for Marketers (elective unit BA/BSc course)
- Predictive Analytics for Business (elective unit BA/BSc course)
- Business Seminar 4: Strategy & Decision Making
- Business Bootcamp 6: Developing Enterprise
- Degree Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 17,500 GBP for international students
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Bachelor's courses, we usually require that you have:
- High school leaving certificate or equivalent.
- A transcript showing successful completion of one year of a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university with CGPA 3.8.
English Language requirements for BA/BSc courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.0
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 80
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 169
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Merit, Reading Merit, Speaking Merit, Writing Merit, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 33, Reading 33, Speaking 33, Writing 33, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
For these course, you must perform an individual piece as an audition. This piece can be up to two minutes long and can be one of the following: a brief modern text (play or screenplay); a short piece of Shakespeare; or an original work you have composed.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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