Program Overview

Fashion MA

The Fashion MA course is designed to help students develop their creative, academic, and professional potential in fashion design. With over 40 years of expertise in fashion design, this course provides a platform for diverse and creative thinking and design practice to challenge and drive the future of fashion and textiles.

About this Course

This course has been designed to help students develop their creative, academic, and professional potential. Students will work alongside other MA Fashion, Textiles, and Knitwear Design students in a dedicated postgraduate studio. The course provides a platform for diverse and creative thinking and design practice to challenge and drive the future of fashion and textiles.

Learn from Visiting Experts

Students will benefit from visiting industry professionals, including Lewis Heath, senior pattern cutter at Simone Rocha; Katie Greenyer, Creative Director at Pentland Brand; and Chris Slesser from Creative UK.

Fashion Beyond the Studio

Students will experience fashion beyond the studio through research trips to exhibitions, events, and key industry locations such as London.

Present Your Work to Industry

Students will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in the NTU Showcase events and relevant competition events.

Take Your Research to the Next Level

Students can opt for an additional advanced research module if they are thinking of progressing to PhD or Professional Doctorate study.

What You'll Study

The modular structure of the MA Fashion course provides opportunities for cross-school community building, interdisciplinary thinking, and collaboration. Optional modules provide a bespoke learning experience geared towards individual professional futures.

Core Modules

• Situating Your Practice

  Students will be inducted into specialist resources in the department and receive workshops relating to their discipline, including practical and digital technologies. They will be trained in CAD Knitwear programmes (Shima and Stoll) and have opportunities to personalize their study through additional sign-up workshops outside of existing specialist knowledge and skills.

• Innovation in Fashion Practice

  Students will build upon their previous outline and identify, develop, and realize an individual project focused upon achieving their future goals. Personalization enables students to align the project to their own ambitions, determining their bespoke outcomes that are most appropriate to support them, whether their next steps focus on a career in advanced study, research, gaining employment in industry, or setting up their own business.

• Culture and Collaboration

  Students will develop an advanced level of understanding of the wider cultural context for current and future work. Within this module, students will collaborate with Masters students across the school of art and design on a negotiated theme relevant to contemporary debates in art & design.

Optional Modules

• Professional Futures

  This module explores the evolving landscape of employment in the fashion and textiles industries. Through discussion, research, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, students will investigate opportunities in enterprise, innovation, and industry, preparing for diverse career pathways in the creative sector.

• Advancing Research Design: Maximising Your Methods

  The multi-disciplinary module provides an explorative platform for students who want to use their course as the basis for further research-based study, want to extend their knowledge of research methods and methodologies to enhance their future professional practice, or are considering progression to PhD level study.

Entry Requirements

UK Students

• Academic Entry Requirements: 2.2 honors degree in a related subject.
• Other Requirements: A creative portfolio.
• Additional Requirements: There are no additional requirements for this course.
• Other Qualifications and Experience: The university welcomes applications from students with non-standard qualifications and learning backgrounds and work experience.

International Students

• Academic Entry Requirements: 2.2 honors degree in a related subject. The university accepts equivalent qualifications from all over the world.
• Other Requirements: A creative portfolio.
• English Language Requirements: See the university's English language requirements page for requirements for the subject and information on alternative tests and Pre-sessional English.
• Additional International Requirements: There are no additional requirements for this course.
• Other Qualifications and Experience: The university welcomes applications from students with non-standard qualifications and learning backgrounds and work experience.

Fees and Funding

UK Students

• Fees: ｣10,300.
• Scholarships: The university awards scholarships to those who can demonstrate excellent achievement, passion, and dedication to their studies.
• Alumni Discount: The university offers a 20% alumni discount to most current NTU students and recent NTU alumni.
• Postgraduate Loans: There is a government postgraduate loan scheme for Masters degrees.

International Students

• Fees: ｣18,300.
• Scholarships: The university awards scholarships to those who can demonstrate excellent achievement, passion, and dedication to their studies.
• Alumni Discount: The university offers a 20% alumni discount to most current NTU students and recent NTU alumni.
• Living Costs: The university provides advice on managing money, the cost of living as an international student in Nottingham, and how to budget.

Careers and Employability

This course leads to a wide range of career opportunities, including:

• Fashion Designer
• Product Developer
• Digital Fashion Designer
• Sustainable Fashion Consultant
• Designer Pattern Cutter
• Creative Pattern Cutter
• Technologist
• Trend Forecasting
• Buyer
• Stylist
• Fashion Entrepreneur

Some graduates also use this course to support careers in teaching, lecturing, journalism, and progression to MPhil or PhD study.

Campus and Facilities

The dedicated postgraduate Fashion Design studio is a lively, highly creative environment based in the Bonington building, a dedicated art and design hub. The university provides various facilities, including fashion and textile studios, manufacturing workshops, and a bonington art shop.

Applying

Students can apply through the NTU Applicant Portal. The university advises students to prepare and apply as early as possible, as Student visa processing time can vary.