Program Overview

Fashion Manufacturing MA

Overview

The Fashion Manufacturing MA addresses current industry challenges and skills shortages by focusing on apparel production, systems, sourcing, and manufacturing processes. This research-driven, industry-informed course is designed to meet the evolving needs of fashion manufacturing, from design and product development to innovative production techniques.

Course Structure

This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Sustainability MA, Fashion Accessories Design MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.

Core Modules

• Sustainable Supply Chain Management: This module aims for you to gain a deep understanding of sustainable supply chains, key stakeholders, and the issues affecting the fashion industry through rigorous and systematic research.
• Costing for Global Fashion: This module investigates global production, sourcing and costings for the fashion industry.
• Garment Technology and Testing: This module prepares you to evaluate a full range of complex garment and textile technology processes in the global fashion industry.
• Fashion Risk Management: This module will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the processes and tools fashion businesses use to assess and manage various types of risk in fashion manufacturing and product development.
• Final Research Project: In this year-long module, you’ll be encouraged to select topics of professional interest and independently direct your own research.

Optional Modules

• Fashion Entrepreneurship: This module aims to engage you in the realities of fashion entrepreneurship.
• Fashion Consumer Behaviour and Trends: This module has been designed to give you a critical understanding of the theories of consumer behaviour, innovation and trend management within fashion and broader business contexts.
• Planning and Trading for Retailing: This module will provide you with an insider view of the key roles of a Fashion Buyer and Fashion Merchandiser operating in a complex, global retail environment.
• Fashion Activism and Social Justice: The aim of this module is to introduce you to a broad range of activism and social justice practices and allow you to understand how social, political, and philosophical values contribute to current issues in the fashion industry.
• Industry Practice: This module encourages and enhances employability skills with industry experience.

Professional Accreditation

This course has been developed with our industry partner the UK Fashion and Textile Organisation Association (UKFT), the largest network for fashion and textile companies in the UK. Students will benefit from guest speakers and networking opportunities.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2) and more than 1 year experience in the fashion, or related, industries is compulsory.
• Applicants are required to submit a portfolio, if this does not contain sufficient accessories design content, applicants will then be required to create a virtual portfolio of three design projects that best evidence individual inspiration, and how this is developed through the process of designing.
• If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in writing and no element below 5.5.

Tuition Fees

• UK tuition fee: £11,900 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £16,000 (Price per academic year)

Facilities

The Harrow Campus is home to most of our arts, media and digital courses. It houses state-of-the-art facilities for every discipline, including project and gallery spaces, film studios, creative labs, collaborative learning spaces, and the Westminster Enterprise Network.

Teaching and Assessment

Teaching methods across all our postgraduate courses focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application. Assessments typically fall into three broad categories: written exams, practical, and coursework.

Supporting You

Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us. This includes study support, personal tutors, student advice team, and extra-curricular activities.