About MA Fashion Communications in Nottingham Trent University

MA Fashion Communications provides the essential conduit between fashion organisations and their consumers, stakeholders, and the wider fashion environment. This subject area combines visual, audio and written media to communicate the creative essence of the fashion industry. The course aims to prepare you for a career within the fashion industry in roles as diverse as fashion journalism, PR, advertising, trend prediction, fashion styling and art direction, digital and social media management, and visual merchandising management.

Our MA Fashion Communications sits in a suite with the following courses:

• MA International Fashion Management
• MA Fashion Marketing
• MA Luxury Fashion Brand Management

You learn alongside students from these other MA courses, and have the option to transfer MA titles if your specialism changes.

Key features

• Gain knowledge and understanding of both new and established communications practices across different areas of the fashion industry, and choose your specialist focus
• Select from a range of possible outputs to reflect your personal career aspirations, or to support an entrepreneurial concept
• Benefit from industry speakers, such as established communications practitioners from leading fashion and lifestyle brands
• Attend workshops to enhance your research skills, acquire relevant software skills like Adobe InDesign, and gain support for your personal career planning
• Work individually and as a team in a challenging, creative and multicultural environment within the School of Art & Design
• Go on study trips to international fashion capitals like Paris, Copenhagen, Antwerp and New York
• Gain a globally recognised academic qualification, in conjunction with personal and professional development for employability and entrepreneurship
• Prepare for further postgraduate study, such as PhD.
• We are proud to be in the top ten in England and Wales for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).

Careers and employability

This course will prepare you for senior management roles across the fashion industry, in areas such as:

• fashion communication
• digital and social media management
• marketing
• advertising
• fashion consultancy
• trend prediction
• styling
• visual merchandising management
• art direction
• public relations
• fashion journalism

The skills and knowledge you'll learn through this course will be transferable to roles within other industries.

Connections with industry

You'll have the opportunity to undertake self-negotiated placements or internships, learn entrepreneurship skills through business development courses (such as The Hive's HeadStart programme), and attend events held by industry experts and organisations.

We’ll help you to develop your skills in self-promotion, team working, presenting and communication. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake case studies, which will help your understanding of how businesses work.

You’ll be encouraged to attend and get involved in conferences and symposia to share your work. Recently, this has included the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes), to deliver papers and performances relating to fashion theory and practice.

You’ll have the opportunity to have your work selected for a Fashion Management, Marketing and Communication exhibition, held at the end of the course.

Study trips

Study visits will inspire and inform your projects. Recent visits to exhibitions in London have included:

• Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum
• The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier at the Barbican
• ARTIST TEXTILES Picasso to Warhol at the Fashion and Textile Museum

An optional annual trip to Antwerp and Paris has included:

• Paris Première Vision, (incorporating Indigo and Yarntex), matériO
• Li Edelkoort’s Trend Union studio, Paris
• a walking tour of the luxury fashion district of Paris
• hidden fashion retail treasures of Antwerp
• Olivier Theyskens, at the Fashion Institute of Technology Antwerp

Entry requirements

• Any university degree of the relevant subject

English language requirements

IELTS : 6.5

• With a minimum of 5.5 in each component

PTE:62

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Nottingham Trent University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

The cost of attendance is governed by factors like the tuition fee and the cost of living.

Nottingham Trent University Admission Procedure 

• Application: The UG applications are accepted through ‘Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)’ and PG applications through the ‘NTU applicant portal’.
• Application fee: One needs to pay £13 for 1 UG course and £24 for multiple UG courses.
• Application deadlines: For UG students the last date to apply is June 30, 2019. The PG programs don’t have any official deadline, however, it is better to apply one month prior to course start date.
• General requirements: Completed application form, academic transcripts, and English proficiency tests.
• Additional requirements: Birth certificate, passport copy, LOR.

English Proficiency Test: Majority of the courses require IELTS score ranging between 6.0 and 6.0 for entry. However, other equivalent English test scores are also acceptable.