MA Fashion and Textiles

When can you start this course? | Fees | Course length |

Why choose this course?

You will study at our Markeaton Street site which has both traditional and industrial equipment, and advanced new technology in our fashion and textiles' studios and other specialised workshops
Students benefit from our excellent links with industry in the fashion and textiles sectors
You will be surrounded by like-minded creative individuals in our School of Art and Design
You will showcase your work in the final year Degree Show, and you can also exhibit at the New Designers exhibition in London
You will have the chance to gain appropriate industrial experience working on high level, multidisciplinary projects
You can study part or full time.

About the course

Derbyshire has a strong heritage in the fashion and textiles industries, with world-renowned companies such as Paul Smith, John Smedley and Aristoc on our doorstep. This inspirational backdrop will underpin your studies on this postgraduate course, which is one of only a few programmes in England with the option of combined study across fashion and textiles.

The course will build on your skills, and will develop your potential to position yourself within the professional spectrum of design for fashion, textiles or related product areas such as knitwear, performance sportswear, or smart textiles for apparel and other uses.

You'll be studying in a vibrant learning environment where you'll have the opportunity to work alongside designers from a wide range of disciplines throughout the faculty. Not only will you acquire professional design skills, but you'll also develop your enterprise and creativity, and you will feel empowered with the ability to challenge industry with production-ready innovation.

Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...

Your career

With ever more increasing pressure on employment opportunities in the fashion and textiles sectors, this course will provide you with a skill set that will stand you in good stead when you graduate.

You could become an entrepreneurial designer, and start up your own business, using the skills you acquired on the course to take your products to market. We offer further support for emerging businesses, through our Creative Industries business incubation unit - Banks Mill.

You could also go on to find employment within any number of global companies. Among the alumni from our fashion and textiles programmes, graduates have gone on to work for Polo Ralph Lauren in New York, Viewpoint Magazine, Franklin Till and Jaeger.

You may also wish to continue on to further study through one of our MPhil / PhD programmes.

This course is subject to approval

This course has just been created and we intend to start running it on the next start date. With every new course that we develop, we first have it checked by internal and external quality panels to make sure you get the best possible learning experience. Once these checks have been completed, this course will have been approved and the flag will disappear. There may be small changes to content of the course during this process so check back for updates to this page.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012

Fees*

UK/EU students

£495 per single module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total).

International students

£10,500 (in total)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.