Program Overview

Fashion, Textiles, Footwear and Accessories (Top-Up) BA (Hons)

Key Facts

• UCAS Code: W239
• Level: UndergraduateUG BA (Hons)
• Duration: Full Time: 1 year, Part Time: 2 years
• Starting: September
• UK Fees 25/26 >: Full Time: £9,535, Part Time: £1,585 (per 20 credits)
• International Fees 25/26 >: Full Time: £17,000
• Location >: Waterside

Overview

This Fashion top up degree gives you the opportunity to refine your existing skills developed from previous studies to top up into a BA (Hons) Degree. Our Fashion, Textiles, Footwear & Accessories degree provides rigorous depth of knowledge and industry-relevant skills, enabling you to explore and advance both your theoretical understanding of fashion design and technical skills to support realisation. With access to specialist workshops, supported by expert academic and technical staff you will refine your skills in both traditional and digital technologies making you prepared for the industry of the future.

Highlights

• Access to the Institute for Creative Leather Technology (ICLT) Tannery – a unique opportunity to explore working with leather as a creative material.
• Study footwear in a town that is steeped in footwear and leather heritage as well as being home to some of the most elite, internationally renowned footwear brands.
• Links with Northampton Museum & Art Gallery which is home to the National Collection of Footwear.
• Fashion at Northampton is a member of Graduate Fashion Week.
• Live team industry, collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.
• Opportunities to take part in national and international competitions.

Entry Requirements

• Standard entry requirements apply. Applicants are expected to have studied a Fashion or related subject at Foundation Degree/HND or equivalent.
• Other Entry Requirements: Applicants are requested to attend a 30 minute interview with a member of the Fashion team.
• We welcome international applications and applications from students with a range of non-traditional educational or professional qualifications.
• For more more information on how to make an application, please visit our How to Apply page.
• If you are an International student and would like information on making an application, please see our How to Apply page.

English Language Requirements

• All International and EU students applying for a course with us must meet the following minimum English language requirements:
  • IELTS 6.0 (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5.5 in all bands for study at undergraduate level.
• For information regarding English language requirements at the University, please see our IELTS page.

Course Content

• Digital Positioning (20 Credits)
  • Module code: FSH3120
  • Status: Compulsory
  • This module will enable fashion students to showcase their digital, aesthetic, technical and specialist skills. This module will support students to create a refined digital platform enables them to position themselves as industry-ready fashion creatives. The online professional profile they create will articulate their ethics and values and serve as a springboard to launch their post-graduation careers. In addition, it will showcase various creative outcomes developed over the duration of their programme within a digital fashion related context. Students will use a specialist multi-media platform of their choice.
• Creative Futures; Planning, Practice and Positioning (40 Credits)
  • Module code: FSH3121
  • Status: Compulsory
  • The module offers students the opportunity to identify their individual strengths and future area of specialism in preparation for industry through the integration of theory and practice. Students will produce a project proposal outlining research areas, the wider context of question or investigation, sustainability, ethics, market level, materials and resources required.
• Final Creative Collection (60 Credits)
  • Module code: FSH4105
  • Status: Compulsory
  • This cumulative module builds on the project proposal and practical development work produced within the Creative Futures module, exploring individual professional potential and career progression. This Final Creative Collection requires students to undertake a sustained, in-depth and informed approach to a design project aligned to own specialism and career aspirations.

Fees and Funding

• 2025/26 Tuition Fees
  • UK – Full Time: £9,535
  • UK – Part Time: £1,585 per 20 credit module
  • International – Full Time: £17,000
• Scholarships and Bursaries: For information on the scholarships available to you, please see our scholarships page.
• Fees and Funding pages: For more information about possible funding options, please visit our Fees and Funding pages.

Staff

• Senior Lecturer in Fashion: Emmeline Child
• Senior Lecturer in Footwear & Accessories: Jane Schaffer
• Senior Lecturer in Fashion: Caroline Lloyd
• Senior Lecturer in Fashion: Jane Mills
• Head of Fashion, Leather & Foundation: Vicki Dean
• Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Fashion Marketing: Ela Crouch

Careers and Employability

• Some of our fashion Alumni over the last couple of years include; ASOS, AVON, Supply Chains for Calvin Klein (PVH), Christian Dior Couture, Christian Louboutin, Dr Martins, END., George at ASDA, Joseph Cheaney and Sons, KDV Beauty, Lacoste, Landmark Group UAE Marks and Spencer, MA Fashion Futures UAL, MA Footwear UAL, MA RCA, New Look, Next, Pittards, Pixel Pool, River Island, Studio Lawal, Ted Baker, TikTok, Tommy Hilfiger, We Are KIN, White Company, William Lamb, Word Forest.

Facilities

• We have a fashion manufacturing facility, including flatbeds and overlockers and a range of specialised production equipment, and a fully equipped textile print room with screen printing, hand dying, transfer printing, laser cutting and two footwear manufacturing workshops.
• Our Fashion School Students have access to a range of CAD packages including Lectra, which specialises in CAD software and CAM cutting-room systems for industries. As well as:
  • Lazer cutter and digital printers
  • Full-size printing table and print room facilities
  • Footwear and Accessory workshops with specialist machinery for the production of leather goods.

Related Courses

• Fashion, Textiles & Footwear BA (Hons): Over the course of our Fashion degree, you will develop all of the design skills and technical knowledge you need to be successful in the fashion industry.
• Fashion Marketing & Promotion BA (Hons): A practical and multi-disciplinary industry-led degree to prepare you for exciting careers in the rapidly evolving fashion industry.