BA (Hons) Fashion are award winners in fashion innovation. The AUB Fashion community supports experimentation, exploration and the application of traditional and contemporary techniques, informing creative solutions for a more considered fashion future. From concept to realisation our students experiment, interrogate, and develop design practises appropriate to their individual design philosophy. They will creatively discover design practise, cutting edge digital fashion technology, craftmanship, product development and presentation. Our students will explore connections between concepts of dress, fashion, and the body as a site for artistic expression.
The social, ethical and environmental contexts of fashion are critical forces: they are central to course debate and practice. How we understand fashion’s impact will inform creative solutions and help students to become effective change makers for a more sustainable and inclusive world. AUB Fashion are award winners in innovation, with a portfolio of internationally recognised student successes through graduate destination, exciting industry collaboration and inspirational speakers integrated into the DNA of the course.
During their time at AUB students will construct a unique portfolio of skills to support their career launch or graduate outcomes. We celebrate their individuality and will help them realise a tailored path within the fashion industry and community at this critical time in history.
What you will learn
Level 4 (first year) introduces creative exploration and skill set submersion. It focuses on fundamental skills as an enriching foundation for the student journey.
Level 5 (second year) prioritises innovation, market awareness and industry practise. Building on the knowledge of fundamental rules from Level 4, students now challenge them, critique the status quo, and innovate solutions to problems within fashion industry and culture.
Level 6 (third year) consolidates the skills developed through previous levels in preparation for graduation and your career launch. It’s considered by graduates as the most challenging and exciting time of their university experience.
Students will focus on a specialist area of study; The Final Major Project is a self-determined body of industry-ready work aligned to a career plan, alongside portfolio development and a Research Project interrogating a topic relevant to individual practice.
You can choose to complete your degree in one of the following named awards:
• BA (Hons) Fashion (Design)
• BA (Hons) Fashion (Textiles)
• BA (Hons) Fashion (Digital Innovation)
• BA (Hons) Fashion (Product Development)
By the end of the course you will be able to...
• Communicate to a diverse audience a comprehensive understanding of critical thinking, contemporary practices and behaviours and emerging trends, innovations and technologies in the global fashion industry.
• Select and responsibly apply appropriate creative, technical, professional and personal skills in the initiation, development, management and realisation of projects.
• Articulate and have confidence in the positioning of the student’s individual practise in the context of the global fashion industry. Apply transferable skills, exercising initiative and personal responsibility.
• Extend academic learning as an independent, self-reflective and creative practitioner, fully prepared for professional environments or postgraduate study.
• Choose how to extend their learning as an independent, self-reflective creative, fully prepared for professional environments or postgraduate study.
• Apply transferable skills, exercising initiative and personal responsibility.
• Extend academic learning as an independent, self-reflective and creative practitioner, fully prepared for professional environments or postgraduate study.
Assessment method
Coursework and practical work. 100% of assessment for this course is coursework based.
Coursework and practical work
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.
Arts University Bournemouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
Please see AUB's website for a full list of our entry requirements, including tariff points where applicable.
We are happy to accept a wide range of qualifications, including but not limited to: A Levels, BTEC Extended Diploma, OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma, BTEC Subsidiary Diploma(s), Access to HE courses, Scottish Highers, IB Diploma Programme, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. We can also accept many EU and International qualifications. See website for details. Email Admissions (admissions@aub.ac.uk) with any queries about entry requirements.
We welcome applicants who are currently studying or who have gained a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and this qualification meets our level three entry requirements. This is a recommended qualification for many of our courses but it is not a compulsory qualification.
Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 qualifications are considered on an individual basis and we are happy to accept applicants with a combination of Level 3 qualifications. Please check your qualifications using UCAS Tariff calculator and remember we are looking for the equivalent of 3 A levels if you are combining Level 3 qualifications.
AUB tailors its offers to the qualifications an applicant is studying and looks for applicant to be studying a relevant creative subject. AUB makes offers based on up to three A Levels or equivalent Level 3 qualifications with the most UCAS Tariff points attached to them to give applicants the best chance possible at achieving our required tariff (120 UCAS Tariff points in most cases).
Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | Academic IELTS or UKVI IELTS with 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each component (reading, writing, speaking and listening) |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 80 | With 80 overall and a minimum score of 18 in writing, listening, and reading and 19 in speaking. Please note the home version of this test is not accepted. |
| Cambridge English Advanced | C | Minimum grade C |
| PTE Academic | 64 | With 64 overall and a minimum of 59 in each component |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | C | Cambridge C2 Proficiency English exam with a minimum grade of C. |
| Trinity ISE | Pass | Level III or level IV with a pass. |
English language requirementshttps://aub.ac.uk/international/english-language/english-language-requirements
Caution should be given to our grades on entry data, with over half of our undergraduate applicants each year undertaking qualifications that are not included in this data. This includes the Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, which represents a sizeable number of our applicants. We encourage applications from a wide range of educational backgrounds and for more information please view our website: www.aub.ac.uk.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
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All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study. If you're unsure about this optional placement, you don't need to decide now. Once you're here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that's right for you.
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