BSc (Hons) Fashion Management and Strategy

The BSc (Hons) Fashion Management and Strategy degree is a value-driven business course designed for students who want to shape the future of the global fashion and lifestyle industries.

This course equips you with the strategic, analytical, and leadership skills needed to manage fashion businesses ethically and effectively balancing creativity with commercial awareness, and innovation with responsibility.

Whether you come from a business background or a creative, making-led pathway, this inclusive and adaptable degree supports you in developing the confidence and capability to become a future leader, manager, or entrepreneur in fashion.

This course gives you a deep understanding of:

• How global fashion businesses operate

• How strategy, data, finance, and marketing drive decision-making

• How ethical leadership can shape better outcomes for people, planet, and profit

From day one, you’ll combine theoretical insight with practical application, developing the professional skills employers value most: collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and strategic thinking.

Graduates leave as well-rounded fashion executives, prepared to lead responsibly in an ever-changing industry.

For Integrated Foundation Year

The Integrated Foundation Year is built into the course as the first stage of the four-year degree, supporting your creative and academic development before progressing to Level 4.

Through project-led, problem-based learning, you’ll build core skills in creative thinking, visual communication, research, and academic practice. The Foundation Year provides a supportive, exploratory environment that prepares you to move confidently into the undergraduate stages of the course.

By enrolling at the Foundation level, you are committing to four years of study, progressing seamlessly from Level 3 through to Level 6.

Optional Placement Year
The placement year will be recognised on the degree transcript and the applicant will need to decide on this option before the start of the course. The placement year option could be used with regular Hons degree or with Integrated Foundation. If the Placement is selected with regular Hons degree, the course duration will be 4 years while with Integrated foundation the course duration will become 5 years.

The optional Placement Year offers students the opportunity to:

• Get under the skin of an industry, organisation, and role to assist them with making better-informed decisions about their future career prospects.

• Undertake a placement, which ensures students can take** personal responsibility** for tasks, duties, and projects within a real-world work setting.

• Develop and recognise their own work ethic and powers of critical reflection.

• Build high-level transferable skills and enhance professional competencies in the - workplace.

Course Start Date BA (Hons): 28th Sep, 2026
Course Start Date BA (Hons) Integrated Foundation: 07th Sep, 2026