BA (Hons) Creative Industries Management Fashion (top-up)

Fashion Business Strategy: Sustainable Business Design: 30 credits
This modile explores the intersection of sustainable practices and innovative business design in the fashion industry. It equips you with the skills to develop, implement, and manage business strategies that are not only economically viable but also centred on sustainability and customer desirability. By emphasising the principles of business design, the module focuses on creating profitable business models that ensure the long-term growth of an organisation while prioritising social and environmental integrity. Through this module, you will learn to overcome the challenges of commercialising sustainable innovations by designing business ecosystems that deliver and capture value effectively.

Entrepreneurial Finance and Financial Modelling for Fashion Business: 15 credits
You will be introduced to the critical aspects of entrepreneurial finance and financial modelling within the fashion industry. It provides the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to analyse and interpret financial statements, manage cash flows, understand and apply financial modelling techniques, and make informed decisions on funding, investment, and capital structure. This module aims to equip you with the ability to build and defend robust business models in the fashion sector, employing both traditional financial management principles and modern tools, including AI, for financial analysis.

Fashion Business: Project Management: 15 credits
The ability to manage projects efficiently is a high-value skill indispensable for all managers. Fashion Business: Project Management module therefore equips you with the essential knowledge and skills needed to manage fashion business projects successfully, addressing common problems and challenges. It covers the evaluation of methods and tools for planning tasks and activities, implementing and managing project activities, building stakeholder relationships, managing resources and risk, monitoring progress, and reporting on outcomes.

Fashion Business and Management Degree Project: 60 credits
This module is the culmination of the course, designed to demonstrate your ability to apply theoretical knowledge to practical, real-world challenges in the fashion industry. Successful completion of this module signifies readiness to enter the professional world of fashion business management, equipped with the skills, knowledge, and experience to make a significant impact.

Year one (equivalent in level to year 3)

• Independent study: 77.4%
• Scheduled teaching: 22.6% 
• Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 0%

Please note, these details are for 2026 entry and could be subject to change for other years of entry.

Graduates of this top-up course can expect to leave with an extensive knowledge of the fashion industry that can see them go on to work in the fashion industry under many different roles. These include:

• Project manager
• Fashion marketing
• Brand manager
• Textiles manager
• Buying and merchandising
• Customer insights manager

Your training on this course will prepare you for a wide range of postgraduate courses. We offer postgraduate opportunities in our Business School and we will help you find the correct course for you and support you in your application should further study be for you.

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BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

• 240 credits from a relevant degree (120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5), with a minimum of 55% overall
• Foundation Degree in a relevant subject
• Higher National Diploma in a relevant subject

And/or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

In recognition that you may already have a relevant professional qualification, or appropriate working experience in the relevant industries, APEL may be accepted for entry on to the course. This will be based on the partnership articulations and will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

Portfolio requirements

These courses don't require a portfolio but, if you're UK-based and you receive an offer, we'd still like to meet you at an Applicant Day. Further information will be provided once you have applied.

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades -  in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The entry requirements for these courses will depend on the country your qualifications are from, please check the equivalent qualifications for your country:

• Non-UK equivalent qualifications

Any additional entry requirements listed in the UK requirements section, e.g., subject requirements, work experience or professional qualifications, also apply to international applicants applying with equivalent qualifications.

Portfolio requirements

This courses does not require a portfolio.

English language requirements

To study at UCA, you'll need to have a certain level of English language skill. And so, to make sure you meet the requirements of your course, we ask for evidence of your English language ability, please check the level of English language required:

• English language requirements