Program Overview

Fashion Design Degree

Overview

The Fashion Design undergraduate program prepares students for a dynamic global industry that plays a vital role in people's economic, cultural, and social lives. Students gain professional skills to develop sustainable fashion and take a fashion design idea from sketch to construction and a finished garment.

Program Details

• Program Type: Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 120

Requirements

• Students learn from faculty members who have experience as successful fashion designers, jurors of exhibitions, and are active members of professional organizations.
• The program employs design process and "design thinking" to educate in design development through an emphasis on art and design research, fashion history, and fashion industry analysis.

Marketable Skills

• Design process and concept development
• Flat patternmaking
• Draping
• Fashion drawing and computer-aided design
• Industrial sewing
• Garment construction and technical skills

Program Highlights

• Students learn in a new 238,000-square-foot facility that opened in 2019 with state-of-the-art equipment and fabrication labs in the four-story, open-concept building.
• The UNT Fashion Design undergraduate program is fifth among public schools in the U.S. and 64th in the world among public and private schools, according to CEOWORLD magazine, March 2022.
• UNT is the only university in the region that has a fashion design program in a college devoted to visual art and design. We also offer both B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in fashion design.

Career Opportunities

• Our alumni are employed in design positions with prestigious companies such as:
  • Dillard’s
  • Calvin Klein
  • Fossil
  • Haggar Clothing Co.
  • Nicole Miller
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Zac Posen
• Fashion houses in Dallas and Fort Worth regularly seek interns from our program, allowing students to receive hands-on experience. Students have interned with apparel companies in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and London.

Sample Courses

• Fashion Design: Introduction to Industrial Sewing Techniques (3 hrs)
• Fashion: Patternmaking I (3 hrs)
• Fashion Design: Advanced Industrial Sewing Techniques (3 hrs)
• Fashion Drawing (3 hrs)
• Fashion: Draping (3 hrs)
• Introduction to Fashion Design (3 hrs)