Global Fashion Management, MA

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, the United Kingdom

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The award	How you will study	Study duration	Course start	Domestic course fees	International course fees
MA	Full-time	12 months	September	GBP 15250 per total	GBP 30250 per total

About Global Fashion Management, MA - at Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures

The fast-moving business of fashion is becoming even more dynamic requiring fashion leaders with advanced management skills that are purpose-driven, agile and visionary.

MA Global Fashion Management is a globally focussed postgraduate course allowing you to gain further key competencies, knowledge and skills in fashion management. This course develops future managers capable of managing multinational fashion companies and brands. The programme also increases your capacity to shape the fashion industry by creating maximum value for stakeholders, consumers and brands.

Creative strategic thinking is at the heart of the programme. With a strong balance between theory (academic) and practice (industry), you will engage with a unique blend of global fashion management themes such as contemporary values and systems, creative engagement, data-driven retail, digital transformation, and consumption experience.

You will study at two internationally renowned Schools at the University of Leeds. The School of Design, as the principal school, affords you to draw creative mastery, inspiration, and ideas from various creative resources. Studying at the Business School enhances your strategic thinking and sharpens your business acumen.

MA Global Fashion Management has been developed in consultation with leading fashion retailers. It represents a new direction in amalgamating retail-systems management, business, and design thinking research within global fashion. This programme enables you to gain comprehensive knowledge, skills and critical competencies required for strategic and senior roles in the fashion industry.

Please refer to our deadline information before submitting an application to this course.

MA Global Fashion Management is built upon the three pillars of design, business and research.

You will study the three design-led management specialist modules: Contemporary fashion management, Fashion Sustainability and Society, and Management data analytics. You will also study two business-led modules, cross-cultural consumer psychology and managing global logistics and supply chain. Research in Design and Enterprise will provide you with an array of skills to be more ready for your major project and the industry.

Specialist facilities

The School of Design offers excellent facilities and technical support for developing your creative skills. We have a range of dedicated spaces where students can work independently. We also have a number of practical workshops, studios and specialist facilities: Sculpture Studio; 2D Art Studio; Fashion Design Studio; Knit and Weave Studio; Photography Studio; Digital Print workshop; Laser cutting and 3D Print workshop; Printmaking Workshop; XLab for Immersive Technologies and 3D workshop. We provide access to a team of excellent technicians across the full range of skills who can help you to realise your work to reach its potential.

The School also provides a range of other support to enhance the student experience and prepare students for the workplace: free dedicated software; a wide range of technical induction programmes; free access to Linked-in-Learning Tutorials; free cameras and video recorder on loan; supporting a Degree Show; external promotion; Visiting Speakers, who are well known figures from industry or other institutions around the world.

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Entry requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any components

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Caroline Mwape Phiri-Lubwika - MA Applied and Professional Ethics (Online Learning)

What made you want to apply to your course and to Leeds?

I chose to study my course because you can apply it across different careers. I believe that each and every person needs to step up in terms of being professional in their work and in their careers; it is something very close to my heart.

I am a journalist by profession, and ethics is at the core of the media industry. I train upcoming journalists in Botswana and I also do children’s reporting, so issues of ethics are very pertinent; not only to me personally but to the profession that I stand for.

How would you describe your experience of studying at Leeds?

Studying online gave me the rare opportunity to study and take care of my family at the same time. It was good that I could concentrate on raising my family while also continuing with my professional work, I must say I gained all round!

I have studied online before - I did distance learning with the University of South Africa, where I did my BA in Communications Science - but this was at another level. What kept me going were the group discussions, which gave me an opportunity to interact with students from across the world, and the tutors coming in to give their opinion.

I decided to come to Leeds in person for my graduation and I was so excited because my dreams have turned into reality. It was so friendly and lovely that I felt like I’d been there before, even though it was my first visit to the campus.

Aakriti Jain - MA Global Fashion Management

What made you want to apply to your course and to Leeds?

After working in fashion as a designer, I realised that I am more suited for the managerial side of this industry. I had all the knowledge and experience I needed to become a designer but I needed to learn more about how that organisation works. With that in mind I started looking for universities who were offering a fashion management course which will help me to gain and enhance the required skills. UK was always my first choice for pursuing my masters because of the successful and booming fashion industry here along with the cultural diversity. University of Leeds offers that exact course which I had been looking for. The combination of subjects that this course provides is extremely unique. It has the perfect blend of business and fashion studies. Other than the course that the University of Leeds offers, the city also has a very warm and welcoming atmosphere for students.

What aspects of the course do you enjoy the most?

Here is the best part of this course, it is so well integrated and connected to all the subjects and you need to apply the knowledge gained from one subject into the other. You can literally see the various parts that you study coming together as one. It pushes you to think differently yet practically.

Ting Zeng - MA Linguistics and English Language Teaching

What made you want to apply to your course and to Leeds?

During the process of learning English and French I found many similarities and differences between these languages and my native language, Chinese. This made me curious about the amazing world of linguistics. In addition to this, my own experience of learning English has shown me that learning a language is not just about memorising vocabulary and grammar rules; it involves a systematic process. One field of linguistics, language acquisition, deals with this process, which increased my interest in studying English language learning from the perspective of linguistics, instead of from the perspective of education. Leeds is one of the few universities in the UK to have a course that combines these two areas.

What aspects of the course do you enjoy the most?

My favourite part of my course is the way it gives you critical reading skills. The major difference between postgraduate and undergraduate study is that postgraduate courses require you to think deeply and broadly, so that you can design your own research project to investigate a new or old problem which hasn’t been solved.

Developing these skills not only helped me to gain a lot of ideas about my essay and dissertation, but also enables me to read clearly, carefully and critically in my everyday life. When I am reading newspapers and magazines, for example, criticality helps me to avoid being misled by the words and opinions of others.