If you’re keen to specialise in marketing, textiles or digital technology, our Fashion Design BA(Hons) degree allows you to enjoy a well-rounded education by focusing on all three. The course offers a stimulating, creative programme of study to help you develop the aesthetic, intellectual and inter-disciplinary skills necessary for fashion design. It focuses on contemporary fashion design, with a marketing or textiles specialism and includes garment production techniques and methods for womenswear, menswear, and gender-neutral clothing. On this exciting new course, you’ll learn from staff with professional experience in the fashion industry, and use cutting-edge equipment located in our purpose-built £30-million specialist building. You’ll choose from one of three complementary specialism related modules (alongside the core Fashion Design modules) on textiles, marketing or digital technology. This allows you to broaden and align your fashion design portfolio of skills as you progress through the course.

On this course, you’ll develop professional skills in fashion design, portfolio techniques, Computer Aided Design (CAD), pattern cutting and garment construction. We’ll also support you in the application of a range of industry-standard technology, including software that will enable you to produce professional fashion marketing material. You’ll benefit from an industry-facing approach, which gives you the opportunity to undertake a placement year to help prepare you for a career in this exciting and diverse industry. You can also specialise in the areas that interest you most, by selecting from a range of option modules. Following the course, you may go on to pursue a role in fashion, art, design, environmental sustainability, clothing production, tailoring, woven textiles, crafts, and more. Computer aided manufacture, visual communication, knitwear technology, printed textiles, and fashion merchandising are also viable routes, as are fashion promotion, 3D design, and design technology.

At Huddersfield, you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your degree† so that you can gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is. †full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.

Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.