Course overview

Transform the global fashion industry with purpose, innovation, and lasting impact. The Fashion Business online course combines solid business foundations, critical thinking and decision-making skills through a creative lens to prepare you as a resilient leader driving success in today’s fast-moving fashion world.

Guided by our ethos 'the world needs creativity,' this course combines a unique fusion of business specialisms with fashion expertise, empowering you to make strategic, sustainable decisions that shape the future of fashion.

Delivered by the renowned Fashion Business School at London College of Fashion, you’ll explore the dynamic intersections of business, the environment, and society through topics such as Finance, Strategy and Leadership, Risk Management and Governance, and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

The flexible course structure combines specialist and elective units shared with its parallel online course, MA Fashion Marketing. This enables you to tailor your learning to your goals and areas of interest, expand your professional network, and engage with diverse perspectives worldwide.

Our students don’t just excel in their fields - they lead with a sense of purpose and positive impact. Innovative units, assessments and a final Capstone Project give you hands-on experience, enabling you to identify opportunities, tackle challenges, and lead transformative initiatives.

Rooted in UAL’s commitment to social, racial, and environmental justice, this course empowers you to champion sustainability, drive ethical practices, and promote diversity and inclusion in your current and future roles.

Course highlights

• Business theory meets creative practice: Master business fundamentals and apply a creative lens to design sustainable solutions for the global fashion industry.
• Flexible learning: Choose your award level (MA, PgDip, PgCert), pay-per-unit, and have the option to take breaks.
• Outstanding dedicated support: Access our student success team to support you from enrolment to graduation.

Careers and industry

Your employability is at the heart of everything we do. Our course design principles are employability-driven and thoughtfully tailored so you can progress and stand out in a competitive fashion industry.

• Strong industry connections: Graduates from the Fashion Business School have gone on to work in executive and strategic roles within major fashion brands, including LVMH, Save Your Wardrobe, Richemont Group, McKinsey, Kantar, Celine and many more.
• Industry-ready confidence and skills: Each unit is mapped to UAL's Creative Attributes Framework, connecting learning outcomes to practical industry skills including communication, collaboration, resilience and entrepreneurship skills.
• Capstone Project: MA students complete a final Capstone Project that simulates real-world consulting, using research to devise an innovative solution for a fashion problem to help you secure your next career move.
• Innovative and industry-ready assessment methods: Assessments mirror industry outputs, allowing you to develop skills such as re-designing supply chain frameworks, creating small-scale product ranges, developing marketing plans, and pitch decks, and transforming academic research into actionable insights.