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Fashion, Marketing and Communication

  • Bachelor of Arts (with Honours)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-Time
  • September 2027
  • Undergraduate
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Course summary

Get ready to make your mark on the world with this unique degree. Fashion, Marketing and Communication will nurture your creative and technical fashion design skills while teaching you essential marketing know-how.

WHY CHOOSE THIS COURSE?
Fashion, Marketing and Communication gives you a valuable insight into the commercial aspects of fashion, including emerging trends and marketing concepts. At Derby School of Arts, we encourage you to take risks, be bold, imaginative and embrace the different. We also expect you to fail so that you learn and grow. This is a safe place to fail – we encourage, support and protect each other.

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
If you want to learn about the business of fashion but also want to design and make, this is your course.
If you are brave, if you are inventive, if you love creative – you belong at Derby School of Arts.

HOW YOU WILL LEARN
In a professional fashion design studio environment supported by the latest online learning facilities. You’ll undertake live projects for real clients and go on placements – all of which build valuable experience. There will also be national and international study trips.

OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES
We guarantee your work will be showcased and celebrated: we enter students into high-profile young designer competitions like Clothes Show Live and they regularly scoop awards at these.

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY
Marketing is crucial to the fashion industry and there’s a growing number of career opportunities in fashion marketing. This degree will provide the ideal foundation for these roles, which might include marketing assistant/manager, market research analyst and sales manager.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Main Site

Study options

  • Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • September 2027

Apply by
13 January 2027

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
W223
Institution code:
D39
Campus name:
Main Site
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
13 January 2027

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W223
Institution code:
D39
Campus name:
Main Site

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
BBC

T Level
M

UCAS Tariff
Offer: 112

We encourage you to outline all your qualifications and achievements in your application to provide us a full picture. Your offer will typically be based on your predicted and/or achieved grades from full level 3 qualifications or above e.g. A levels, BTEC Ext Diploma, Access to HE, etc.

Any subject specifics are outlined below in the A-levels section, and these specifics are applicable across all equivalent qualifications.

A strong application/performance and appropriate experience will be taken into account where typical criteria is not met.

Access to HE Diploma
Distinction: 15 Merit: 24 Pass: 6

Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits with 45 at Level 3

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above) or equivalent qualification

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

Additional entry requirements

Portfolio

English language requirements

IELTS overall score at a minimum of 6.0; with at least IELTS 5.5 in each band (Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing) or another Secure English Language Test(SELT)at CEFR level B2 or above

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

We have excluded the Grades on Entry data for this course. We may operate some flexibility with entry grades to support widening participation, though most of the students that enrol on this course achieve the published entry tariff or above. Applicants who achieve grades below the published tariff may be offered an alternative course or a 4-year route if there is one available. For further information please contact askadmissions@derby.ac.uk.

Historical entry grades data

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.

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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.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland, EU & InternationalTBC

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.

Additional fee information

The Home and International fees for the 2027 term have not yet been confirmed.

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