This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.
University of Salford has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
Course summary
Fashion increasingly relies upon the influence of social media buying, merchandising, communication, promotion, and advertising. This course prepares you to take a leading role in this ever-changing, fast-moving industry. This BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion degree course will enable you to consider the fashion industry in its entirety while developing a broad range of practical, and technical skills required to succeed. You’ll be studying within our dynamic and award-winning Fashion department within Greater Manchester. Our location includes independent Fashion designers, retailers, and multi-million-pound online Fashion brands so you will be within one of the most important up and coming centres for the future of the global Fashion industry. This fashion and business promotion degree course will introduce you to the importance of sustainability and enable you to define your own role in shaping the future of fashion retail. You will develop real-time skills with the knowledge understanding of blogging, influencers, marketing, trend prediction whilst all the time developing essential analysis and business entrepreneurial skills. You will experience live industry projects and a work placement in your second year gaining unique practical experience alongside presentations from industry leaders and opportunity for career building networking events. In the final year of the course, you will complete a personal project building a portfolio of work to showcase your individual interests, talent and establish your reputation as a fashion business and promotion professional. You Will
- Join a supportive fashion community at Salford that’s truly passionate about fashion promotion and business practices
- Discover how the business and promotion of fashion works in the wider global industry
- Study visits to design studios and businesses within the UK
- Learn essential skills in Adobe Illustrator, Spark Pages, InDesign & Photoshop
- Graduate with a diverse portfolio of work that can be used to land that perfect role in the fashion industry or further study at masters level
- Gain experience through placement and networking
Modules
Year one -The Customer Journey
- Bloggers, Vloggers and Influencers
- Fashion Graphics Introduction
- Fashion Marketing, Ethical Practice and Buying
- Fashion Communication and Media
- The Future of Shopping
- Advanced Fashion Media
- Enterprise in Action
- Visual Merchandising and Branding Strategies
- Industry Live Briefs/Work Experience
- E-marketing and Branding Strategies
- Fixing Fashion: A Sustainable Future
- Buying and Product Development
- Major Personal Project
Assessment method
An important part of our fashion business university courses is the opportunity to present your academic skills in a variety of ways. Throughout your degree, your assignments will consist of essays, reports, portfolios, performances, presentations and your final year project. Grades from your formal assessments will count towards your final degree classification.
How to apply
This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.
14Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- W2N1
- Institution code:
- S03
- Campus name:
- Peel Park Campus
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 104 - 112 points
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MMM - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 30 - 31 points
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
Additional entry requirements
Other
As part of your application, we will also ask you to create a mood board and written piece, to provide opportunity for you to share your creative practice with us. Once you’ve made your application to study with us, we’ll contact you and let you know the next steps.
English language requirements
International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.0 (no element below 5.5) is proof of this.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
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Provider information
University of Salford
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WT