Course Overview

This BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion degree course will enable you to consider the fashion industry in its entirety while developing a broad range of practical, and technical skills required to succeed. You’ll be studying within our dynamic and award-winning Fashion department within Greater Manchester. Our location includes independent Fashion designers, retailers, and multi-million-pound online Fashion brands so you will be within one of the most important up and coming centres for the future of the global Fashion industry.

This fashion and business promotion degree course will introduce you to the importance of sustainability and enable you to define your own role in shaping the future of fashion retail. You will develop real-time skills with the knowledge understanding of blogging, influencers, marketing, trend prediction whilst all the time developing essential analysis and business entrepreneurial skills.

You will experience live industry projects and a work placement in your second year gaining unique practical experience alongside presentations from industry leaders and opportunity for career building networking events.

In the final year of the course, you will complete a personal project building a portfolio of work to showcase your individual interests, talent and establish your reputation as a fashion business and promotion professional.

You Will

• Join a supportive fashion community at Salford that’s truly passionate about fashion promotion and business practices.

• Discover how the business and promotion of fashion works in the wider global industry.

• Work with our Industry partners who have included Wicker Wings, Both Barrels, Silpa & By Gibbs

• Study visits to design studios and businesses within the UK

• Work Placement, Networking and employability working with small business start-ups and the Universities business growth hub.

• Learn essential skills in Adobe Illustrator, Spark Pages, InDesign & Photoshop

• Graduate with a diverse portfolio of work that can be used to land that perfect role in the fashion industry or further study at masters level.

General Eligibility

GCSE

English Language at grade C/level 4 or above (or equivalent). Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.

You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements as well as one of the requirements listed below.

UCAS tariff points

104-112 points

A level

104-112 points

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).