Fashion Business (Accelerated Degree)

The business of fashion is complex, and with our BA (Hons) Fashion Business degree you’ll learn the essential skills needed for a successful career in fashion retail. You’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of the fashion retail business landscape, learn how different departments collaborate to achieve business goals, and explore the commercial, ethical and financial factors that affect brands.

Through lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and projects, you’ll develop the essential management, leadership, analytical and communication skills required to succeed in the fashion industry.

You will:
- Learn the leadership qualities and entrepreneurial skills needed to start your own fashion business

- Be assigned a personal industry mentor to work with throughout the course

- Develop the technical, research, creative and analytical skills needed for a business-focused role in the fashion retail industry

- Examine the rise of technology, sustainability and corporate social responsibility and how these affect the industry at all levels

- Learn about the diversity and complexity of the international fashion business and how to use data analytics in decision-making

- Understand how sustainability, corporate responsibility and technology affect the industry at a strategic and operational level

- Work on live projects set by our brand partners and complete work placements with our industry partners

- Complete a self-directed Personal Professional Project that allows you to demonstrate your skills and knowledge, and contextualise these in alignment with your career goals

Industry Enrichment

We work with over 140 brands at the FRA. Our courses include practical, industry-focused content taught by some of fashion’s biggest names to give you valuable skills and work experience.

Industry enrichment opportunities include:

Industry mentorship scheme: Work with your own dedicated industry mentor throughout your course. You’ll meet a minimum of once a term, and they’ll be there to support and guide you.

Work placements: You’ll have a work placement with one of our brand partners each year. In the first year of your undergraduate degree, you’ll complete a three-week work placement. In your second year, your work placement will be either 3 weeks full time or two days a week over 3 months.

Talks, masterclasses and live industry projects: Attend talks and masterclasses led by some of the top names in fashion and retail, and complete projects set by industry partners who will give you feedback and advice.