The BA (Hons) Fashion Management with Marketing is a practice-led, data-driven programme dedicated to merging rigorous business understanding with immediate real-world application, ensuring you graduate not just industry-ready, but industry-shaping. We are focused on cultivating the next generation of strategic business leaders who possess the commercial acumen, analytical rigour, and ethical foresight necessary to drive sustainable value and transformative change across the global fashion ecosystem.
This degree provides you with a comprehensive and systematic understanding of strategic management, advanced marketing strategy (accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing), and financial analytics required to lead a fashion enterprise in a highly competitive global market.
You will also develop advanced skills in data literacy, forecasting, and problem-solving, equipping you to analyse complex business problems and formulate robust, data-driven strategies for future growth and profitability
You'll gain a practice-led connection between theory and application through our student-led retail outlet, Re:So, real world, live briefs and guaranteed micro placements, enabling you to gain essential operational experience in business planning, financial control, and stakeholder communication.
If you’re looking to study our fashion management with marketing degree but don’t have the relevant qualifications or experience, the art and design foundation year will help you develop the core skills and knowledge to progress. Find out more about the art and design foundation year.
This course also offers the option of a placement year. A placement year allows you to put what you've learned in your first and second years into practice in the workplace, gaining valuable real-world work experience before you graduate. Our course and placements teams will help you find the perfect industry placement in your chosen field.
Who is this course for?
This course is perfect for individuals aspiring to be the next generation of strategic business leaders who can drive sustainable value and transformative change across the global fashion ecosystem. It is ideal for students who seek a comprehensive and systematic understanding of strategic management, advanced marketing strategy, and financial analytics.
What does this course lead to?
Graduates will be well prepared for careers in marketing, PR, merchandising, buying, retail and project management.
Recent graduates have gone on to roles in fashion management, buying and forecasting, marketing and strategic communications, such as marketing manager, marketing assistant and visual merchandiser. Graduates have gained roles at companies including Selfridges, Michael Kors, ASOS, Jimmy Choo and Armani.
YEAR ONE
CORE MODULES
Fashion Eco Systems
Circular Economy
From Concept to Consumer
Fashion Analytics
YEAR TWO
CORE MODULES
Fashion, Culture and Society
Strategic Digital Experience
Sustainable Supply Chain
OPTIONAL MODULES - Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
Creating a Product Range
Social Currency
PLACEMENT YEAR
FINAL YEAR
CORE MODULES
Research for Innovation
Business Ideation and Development
Professional Realisation
OPTIONAL MODULES - Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
The Media Event
Global Fashion Markets
You may be assessed at the end of each block by:
Written assessments
Group presentations
In-class tests
Reflective accounts
As part of this course, you will study one module at a time, giving you the chance to build a deeper understanding and see the results of your hard work more quickly. With regular assessments and feedback, rather than exams all at once, you’ll also benefit from improved focus, and a more manageable workload.
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
Southampton, Solent University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
See why these ratings were awarded
What does this TEF outcome mean?
The following entry points are available for this course:
For information about applying to Solent as an International applicant, please visit https://www.solent.ac.uk/how-to-apply/entry-requirements/help-for-international-students
• Direct entry to years 2 (Level 5) or 3 (Level 6)
We welcome applications from students currently studying a Foundation Degree, DipHE, HNC, HND or modules of an undergraduate degree course at another university, who wish to enter directly into Years 2 or 3 of one of our undergraduate degree courses.
• Level 5 (year 2) entry
To directly enter the second year of this course you will need to show appropriate knowledge and experience. For example, you are an ideal candidate if you have 120 undergraduate credits at Level 4 or a CertHE in a related subject area.
• Level 6 (year 3) entry
To directly enter the third year of this course you need to show appropriate knowledge and experience. For example, you are an ideal candidate if you have 240 undergraduate credits (at Levels 4 and 5), a DipHE, Foundation Degree or HND in a related subject area.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | with 5.5 in each individual component. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 80 | with a minimum of 20 in each individual compoenent. |
We understand that each student is unique. At Solent we encourage individuality and have adopted a balanced approach to Admissions, by considering exam results alongside portfolios / interviews or auditions.
Our contextual offer scheme allows offers below our standard academic entry criteria to those who have faced challenges which has impacted their performance and predicted higher grades, by taking into account additional selection criteria such as a strong portfolio, interview or audition.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Solent University offers a number of bursaries, grants and scholarships. For more information, please visit https://www.solent.ac.uk/finance/grants-bursaries-scholarships/bursaries
Email:clearing@solent.ac.uk
Phone:023 8001 1722
Email:admissions@solent.ac.uk
Phone:+44 (0) 23 8201 5066
Email:student.funding@solent.ac.uk
East Park Terrace
Southampton
SO14 0YN
At Southampton, Solent University
