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The innovative BSc (Hons) Fashion Business and Management is responding to the needs of the rapidly evolving global fashion industry where the customer is steering businesses to think and act smarter.
By joining the BSc (Hons) Fashion Business and Management, you will take a journey that will put you at the forefront of current thinking within the fashion industry and prepare you to excel as a graduate and a future leader. Successful companies are putting their customer at the heart of the brand. Marketing, buying, merchandising, data insight, digital channels and in store have to work together to design a service to bring about a total customer experience. This requires fashion graduates with the vision, entrepreneurial thinking, business management and marketing skillsets to be su...
3 years full time
4 years full time with placement and/or study abroad
The course is broad but focused on developing knowledge of the fashion industry of tomorrow, building creative thinking and commercial acumen. Students will acquire invaluable insight into the fundamentals of global business strategy, digital-driven marketing, finance, sustainability, supply chain, data analytics and innovative entrepreneurship.
Teaching Excellence Framework 2023-2027
Chartered Institute of Marketing
National Student Survey 2024 (NSS)
In the first year, you will build critical awareness and business acumen regarding the fashion marketplace, whilst gaining an understanding of product journeys from concept to final destination. Students will explore high street, digital and multichannel environments and understand how these channels are disrupting traditional fashion business models.
Acquiring a holistic understanding of consumer journeys within multi-channel fashion environments and the use of marketing within it. You will explore high street, digital and multichannel environments, assessing the effectiveness of interactions and relationships between the customer, brand, marketing communications and beyond. Discovering and creating marketing strategies that make compelling and successful customer journeys and enhance fashion retail experiences
This unit enables an explorative and experimental space from which to re-imagine future fashion concepts for a defined industry focussed challenge.
You will investigate advances in innovative digital solutions across a range of interdisciplinary technologies, whilst considering complexities of the impact of proposing concepts in an ethically focussed digital environment.
In this unit you will develop the essential skills needed as a business professional. You will examine structures, functions, roles, responsibilities and KPIs within fashion businesses, and unique strategies that inform and enhance sustainable business practice in relation to the Business function.
This unit will build critical awareness and business acumen of the fashion marketplace. You will develop a strong understanding of the dynamics of both the local and global fashion landscape. It will explore retail channels and the strategies employed by leading firms to stay ahead of their competition is explored, in addition students gain a clear understanding of product journey from concept to final destination.
Study
Year 1 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 2 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 3 100% placement (optional)
Year 4 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 80% independent study
Assessment
Year 1 100% coursework
Year 2 100% coursework
Year 3 100% placement
Year 4 100% coursework
At Manchester Fashion Institute, employability is at the heart of our teaching. All of our undergraduate courses offer an optional sandwich year route that gives you the opportunity to apply for an industry placement between your second and final year. If you choose this route, you will commit to working full-time in the fashion industry for the entirety of your third year, before returning to complete your degree in your fourth year.
A placement year is an incredibly valuable element of your course as it allows you to apply your university-based knowledge, skills and understanding to your job role. During your placement, you will make your own industry contacts and enhance your CV by gaining real-world industry experience. Currently, 40% of our student cohort take part in a one-year full-time industry placement.
We have a dedicated placement team with over three decades of experience sourcing and securing outstanding placement opportunities. They will provide you with extensive support and advice prior to and during your industry placement.
Placement opportunities are available both in the UK and internationally, with students previously working in countries such as Austria, Germany, Norway, Hong Kong SAR, Sri Lanka and the USA.
In year 2 you will further develop your professional skills and behaviours, whilst gaining knowledge in strategic fashion management and change management in organisations. This knowledge will be underpinned with an understanding of supply chain and sustainable sourcing strategies. With a focus on insight-driven marketing and decision making, you will learn how to enhance brand loyalty in a multichannel interactive environment.
This unit will enable you to explore and develop personal and professional skills to support your preparedness for life beyond university (post-graduation) in the context of your future options, employability and career readiness.
You will review and design memorable marketing, brand and service related consumer experiences. This unit takes a customer centric view of building relationships to enhance brand loyalty in a multi-channel interactive environment. Creating fashion related customer experiences that differentiate brands in the development of impactful marketing strategies and plans.
This unit provides a space for collaborative projects with external and/or internal partners.
The aim of this unit is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the integration of strategic management principles, change management and analytics within the context of the fashion industry. It aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to analyse data, make informed decisions, and strategically manage fashion businesses in a dynamic global market.
You will explore the different business models and strategies to deliver sustainable competitive advantage. Supply chain and responsible sourcing strategies will underpin your knowledge.
You will assess business performance as a result of strategic decisions relating to financial and non-financial strategies adopted by organisations together with the theories underpinning them.
Study
Year 1 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 2 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 3 100% placement (optional)
Year 4 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 80% independent study
Assessment
Year 1 100% coursework
Year 2 100% coursework
Year 3 100% placement
Year 4 100% coursework
At Manchester Fashion Institute, employability is at the heart of our teaching. All of our undergraduate courses offer an optional sandwich year route that gives you the opportunity to apply for an industry placement between your second and final year. If you choose this route, you will commit to working full-time in the fashion industry for the entirety of your third year, before returning to complete your degree in your fourth year.
A placement year is an incredibly valuable element of your course as it allows you to apply your university-based knowledge, skills and understanding to your job role. During your placement, you will make your own industry contacts and enhance your CV by gaining real-world industry experience. Currently, 40% of our student cohort take part in a one-year full-time industry placement.
We have a dedicated placement team with over three decades of experience sourcing and securing outstanding placement opportunities. They will provide you with extensive support and advice prior to and during your industry placement.
Placement opportunities are available both in the UK and internationally, with students previously working in countries such as Austria, Germany, Norway, Hong Kong SAR, Sri Lanka and the USA.
This course offers a placement year option which can be taken in Year 3.
Where a placement is not undertaken, you will study the following final year units. Please note, these option units are indicative of what options may be on offer in Year 3 of this programme but may be subject to change.
In year 3 you will examine service innovation, design and entrepreneurship across the fashion industry, with an emphasis of excellence in leadership. You will also review global business strategies in the context of sustainable thinking and the circular economy. As part of the Fashion Enterprise Project, you will negotiate and define a proposal for a business venture, working with university and industry partners to conduct research activities that result in measurable business plans that can be analysed within the context of the fashion marketplace.
You will focus on excellence in leadership for design, service innovation and entrepreneurship across the fashion industry. Critically, this is not only product design, but also agile service design across the value system while leading the change process. Within entrepreneurship, you will examine how renowned leaders employ their expertise and vision to drive firms forward in an increasingly complex and competitive trading environment.
You will examine global business strategies in the context of sustainable thinking by identifying and pursuing sustainability opportunities not only for the good of the world but in terms of value creation. Sustainability has gone beyond reputation building to an active agenda and future vision of a complete circular economy. This unit enables you to develop knowledge of sustainable global strategies that can be adopted by organisations, with emphasis on the circular economy and apply critical thinking to explore new opportunities and strategic directions.
This Fashion Consultancy Project unit will enable you to cultivate a comprehensive understanding and insight into an independently chosen area on which to focus a depth study. This unit offers the opportunity for you to work on a ‘live’ industry consultancy brief or a ‘fictional’ brief which will task you to consider a particular area of enquiry related to business, management, buying, merchandising or marketing. The brief will pose a strategic level, real life or scenario based challenge relevant to their area of interest/study.
Supported by mentors, you will work independently to carry out a consultancy project in which you will synthesise information including reports, data, industry/sector information, market research and/or academic literature.
The emphasis will be on applying business acumen, research skills and professional practice to an enterprise project within a project management framework enabled by negotiating and defining a project proposal for a business venture.
This Fashion Research Project will enable you to cultivate a comprehensive understanding and insight into an independently chosen research area. The unit aims to explore and interpret research information through critical review and analysis of existing literature, as well as collect and analyse primary and/or secondary data to create a coherent and cogent argument focused on a specific case of your interest. The unit requires you to investigate a substantial issue of contemporary academic and/or business interest in the context of the fashion industry.
Supported by academic research mentors, you will work independently to carry out a research project in which you will synthesise theoretical, commercial and philosophical concepts stemming from relevant academic and/or industry literature.
Study
Year 1 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 2 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 75% independent study
Year 3 100% placement (optional)
Year 4 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 80% independent study
Assessment
Year 1 100% coursework
Year 2 100% coursework
Year 3 100% placement
Year 4 100% coursework
At Manchester Fashion Institute, employability is at the heart of our teaching. All of our undergraduate courses offer an optional sandwich year route that gives you the opportunity to apply for an industry placement between your second and final year. If you choose this route, you will commit to working full-time in the fashion industry for the entirety of your third year, before returning to complete your degree in your fourth year.
A placement year is an incredibly valuable element of your course as it allows you to apply your university-based knowledge, skills and understanding to your job role. During your placement, you will make your own industry contacts and enhance your CV by gaining real-world industry experience. Currently, 40% of our student cohort take part in a one-year full-time industry placement.
We have a dedicated placement team with over three decades of experience sourcing and securing outstanding placement opportunities. They will provide you with extensive support and advice prior to and during your industry placement.
Placement opportunities are available both in the UK and internationally, with students previously working in countries such as Austria, Germany, Norway, Hong Kong SAR, Sri Lanka and the USA.
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These typical entry requirements may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year. Please check back for further details.
GCE A levels - grades BCC or equivalent
Pearson BTEC National Extended Diploma - grade DMM
Access to HE Diploma - Pass overall with a minimum 106 UCAS Tariff points
UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma - grade of Merit overall
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - grade DMM
T level - We welcome applications from students undertaking T level qualifications. Eligible applicants will be asked to achieve a minimum overall grade of Merit as a condition of offer
IB Diploma - Pass overall with a minimum overall score of 26 or minimum 104 UCAS Tariff points from three Higher Level subjects
Other Level 3 qualifications equivalent to GCE A level are also considered.
A maximum of three A level-equivalent qualifications will be accepted towards meeting the UCAS tariff requirement.
AS levels, or qualifications equivalent to AS level, are not accepted. The Extended Project qualification (EPQ) may be accepted towards entry, in conjunction with two A-level equivalent qualifications.
Please contact the University directly if you are unsure whether you meet the minimum entry requirements for the course.
GCSE grade C/4 in English Language or equivalent, e.g. Pass in Level 2 Functional Skills English
and
GCSE grade C/4 in Mathematics or equivalent, e.g. Pass in Level 2 Functional Skills Mathematics
GCE A levels - grades BCC or equivalent
Pearson BTEC National Extended Diploma - grade DMM
Access to HE Diploma - Pass overall with a minimum 106 UCAS Tariff points
UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma - grade of Merit overall
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - grade DMM
T level - We welcome applications from students undertaking T level qualifications. Eligible applicants will be asked to achieve a minimum overall grade of Merit as a condition of offer
IB Diploma - Pass overall with a minimum overall score of 26 or minimum 104 UCAS Tariff points from three Higher Level subjects
Other Level 3 qualifications equivalent to GCE A level are also considered.
A maximum of three A level-equivalent qualifications will be accepted towards meeting the UCAS tariff requirement.
AS levels, or qualifications equivalent to AS level, are not accepted. The Extended Project qualification (EPQ) may be accepted towards entry, in conjunction with two A-level equivalent qualifications.
Please contact the University directly if you are unsure whether you meet the minimum entry requirements for the course.
There’s further information for international students on our international website if you’re applying with non-UK qualifications.
Tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year are still being finalised for all courses. You can find information on 2024/25 standard undergraduate fees for UK/Channel Islands and EU/Non-EU international students. All fees stated may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year.
Specialist Costs:
Printing and Binding:
Students the programme will be expected to pay for printing and binding for some assignments
Laptop Cost:
Students may also choose to purchase a laptop. Laptops are used in class across all years of the programme. The university offers computer facilities across the campus, however for study outside the campus a laptop may prove useful
Trips:
Students have the option of a choice of national or international study trips during their study. Trips are tailored to support the learning on the programme. Costings are sourced from university-approved travel agents and are outlined to students upon briefing of the trips. Costs vary in-line with the current market and student numbers. Costs vary between countries and areas; however, we will provide students an indication of destinations and costs well ahead of time. Examples of trips recent trips include Copenhagen in year one, New York in year two and Vietnam for year three students.
International Exchange:
Students also have the opportunity of collaborations and studying within partner international educational institutions for a period of time during year two.
Costs vary between countries and areas, so it is very important to research costs well ahead of time and budget accurately. Students are supported by an International team. International funding may be available to apply for, dependent on country and international policy / governmental agreements in place at the time.
Placement Year and Placement Year with Overseas Study:
Students may take an optional UK based or overseas internships as part of the placement year after year two. Students are encouraged and supported to obtain paid placements. Costs vary between countries and areas, so it is very important to research costs well ahead of time and budget accurately. Students are supported by an International team if accepting positions overseas. International funding may be available to apply for, dependent on country and international policy / governmental agreements in place at the time. Additional costs for travel /relocation, accommodation and subsidies to salary may be required depending on position, salary offer, duration and location.
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Money MattersThe fashion industry presents graduates with the opportunity to take up management level positions across the globe. There is an increased need in the industry for graduates with business, innovation and corporate entrepreneurial skills to enter management positions - this degree will equip you with those skills. The optional placement year will allow you to gain valuable experience to kick start you career.
The broad fashion business knowledge acquired, and real business learning will allow you to visualise businesses as holistic entities and respond appropriately. This provides you with the opportunity to consider employment opportunities in a wide variety of sectors in the industry, from independent design houses to high-end chains. Graduates will be able to enter a range of roles and functions such as Marketing, International Brand Management, Digital Enterprise, Multichannel Management, Buying, Merchandising, Logistics and Supply Chain, Retail Management, Project Management and Strategic Management.
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