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BA (Hons) Fashion with Integrated Foundation Year

Create, communicate, and shape the future of fashion. This course combines fashion design, garment construction, textiles, marketing, branding, and digital innovation, allowing you to take a creative direction that reflects your interests and fashion career ambitions.

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Duration4 years
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LocationOn campus

Course summary

Our fashion course combines:

  • Fashion design
  • Garment construction
  • Textiles
  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Digital innovation.

Throughout, you'll explore sustainability, circular design, and ethical fashion. You'll also consider how you can use AI responsibly in creative practice.

You’ll learn through practical, studio-based projects that explore:

  • Pattern cutting
  • Draping
  • Garment production
  • Fashion illustration
  • Styling
  • Photography
  • Digital content creation
  • Promotional campaigns.

You’ll work in specialist fashion studios and textile and print facilities. With support from our expert staff, you’ll use industry-relevant tools, including Adobe Creative Cloud and CLO3D. Through live and industry-informed briefs, you'll develop portfolios and learn from visiting practitioners and creative partners who'll share their knowledge and experience with you. You can also apply for an optional industry placement year between your second and final year.

Your final-year Graduate Showcase will give you the opportunity to realise and present a self-directed body of work. This could be a fashion collection, to a brand identity, or communication campaign.

Upon completion of this course, you may pursue a career in:

  • Fashion design
  • Garment technology
  • Product development
  • Styling
  • Fashion marketing
  • Branding
  • Digital content
  • Creative direction
  • Retail
  • Entrepreneurship.

Integrated Foundation Year

This course is available with an Integrated Foundation Year, an extra year of your degree. This route offers a supportive way of transitioning into university study. It may be suitable for you if you:

  • Have valuable work or life experience but no formal qualifications
  • Are returning to education after a break
  • Want to change direction or explore a new career path
  • Have just missed the entry requirements for the three-year course.

We’re enhancing our Integrated Foundation Year to give you an even stronger start to your degree. The updated modules will align more with your chosen subject area. This will help you build the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need for your studies. We'll share full details soon and can't wait to tell you more.

Please note, this route isn’t available to international students.

What you'll study

*Placements are subject to availability and placement providers may require an interview as part of the process. If successful, you'll remain an active student and will have access to a wide range of support from Graduate Prospects.

Many of our courses include a range of modules you can choose from. Some options may only be available if you’ve already studied specific modules. If you’re not sure what you need before picking a module, your course leader can help.

Undergraduate module credits should total 120 credits per academic year. If optional modules are available, choose an amount that totals 120 credits.

How you'll learn

Using our specialist facilities, you'll experiment with materials, garment construction, illustration, branding, photography and digital tools.

You'll build practical skills through studio work and workshops, supported by lectures, seminars, tutorials, technical demonstrations, reviews and independent study. You’ll also gain experience taking on a range of live and industry-informed projects.

Regular feedback from tutors and peers will help you develop your work through one-to-one tutorials, studio critiques, discussions and presentations.

Assessment methods include coursework, such as sketchbooks, research, practical projects, portfolios, marketing campaigns, presentations and exhibitions. We also offer an optional industry placement year, where you'll reflect on your professional practice and experience.

Part-time route

If you choose to study this course part-time, you’ll follow the same course content and assessment requirements as full-time students, with studies spread over 6 years.

Entry requirements

Fees and finance support

If you're joining us in semester two and are a Home fee-paying student, the fee for your first year of study for 2026/27 will be £9,790. You'll pay tuition fees for every year of study. Fees may increase every year based on the Retail Price Index.

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Full-time UK/Irish/EU settled/EU pre-settled students may be eligible for financial support. This would cover your fees for the full four years. UK and EU settled students may also be eligible to receive a maintenance loan.

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Please note, our Integrated Foundation Year courses aren't available to international students.

Disclaimer

We want to make sure you have clear and accurate information about our courses. Our website always shows the latest updates. If you’ve applied and you're offered a place, we’ll contact you in writing if anything important changes.

For more information, view our programme specifications. These include course content, learning outcomes, and the skills you'll gain.