Program Overview

Fashion Business Management MA

Overview

This course will equip you with the strategic decision-making, leadership, and problem-solving skills you'll need to become an entrepreneurial and visionary fashion business leader of the future. It continues the University’s fashion tradition of a commitment to excellence in developing highly effective, talented, and committed professional fashion graduates.

Course Structure

The Fashion Business Management MA is part of the University of Westminster's broad postgraduate portfolio in fashion. Our diverse programme allows students to shape their learning through interdisciplinary core and optional modules shared across the five postgraduate fashion courses. These courses address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, specialised professional contexts, and facilitates collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.

Core Modules

• Sustainable Supply Chain Management: This module investigates the key stakeholders in the fashion and clothing supply chain whilst examining different supply chains, ranging from linear to circular models.
• Strategic Fashion Business Management: This module is designed to introduce you to the issues involved in the strategic management of fashion businesses.
• Fashion Marketing and Brand Management: With competition in the fashion business at its fiercest and most volatile, it is imperative that companies develop successful and effective brand and marketing strategies to maximise competitive advantage.
• Fashion Entrepreneurship: This module combines practical knowledge of business development and planning with theory and finance models, where relevant, to the fashion industry.
• MA Fashion Business Management Final Project: The MA Fashion Business Management Final Project is designed as the capstone module of the MA Fashion Business Management course.

Option Modules

• 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 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.
• 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.
• Fashion Activism and Social Justice: The module explores the intersections between social justice, activism, and fashion.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second-class honours degree (2:2) and a minimum of two years of full-time working experience in the fashion business is required.
• Applicants will be expected to include a CV with their application.
• Non-standard applicants may be considered if with extensive work experience.
• Within the statement of purpose, the applicant should include an indication of an area of research interest related to the fashion industry.
• 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.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £11,700 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £15,500 (Price per academic year)
• Alumni discount available
• Funding available, including Student Finance England (SFE) and scholarships

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• Assessment includes practical and coursework components.

Facilities

• The course is based at the Harrow Campus, which 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.

Careers

• This course will equip you for a business management career in the domestic or international fashion industry.
• Our graduates have gone on to work in senior positions all over the world in many fashion roles, including well-known brands such as Burberry, Jimmy Choo, Perry Ellis, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
• Many of our graduates have also gone on to study at PhD level and to further academic research, while others have set up their own businesses.