How Many Years of College for a Fashion Merchandising Degree

Re-approval

Please note this course is undergoing re-approval. This is the process by which we ensure the grade continues to provide a loftier quality academic experience. During re-blessing there may be some changes to the form content displayed on this folio. Please contact us if you have any questions about the class.

Why choose this class at London College of Manner

• Where graduates have gone on to work: graduates of this form are now working in merchandising and ownership roles at companies including Yoox, Cyberspace-a-Porter, Urban Outfitters, Lipsy, Mulberry, The White Company, ASOS, H&M and River Island.
• Manufacture links:students volition have the opportunity to work with manufacture on collaborative projects, every bit well as having the opportunity to undertake an optional placement year. Electric current students are working for Nike, H&1000, Disney, Rixo and ASOS.
• Cloth establish associateship level accreditation:BA (Hons) Manner Buying and Merchandising students tin can relish membership benefits and graduates may employ to join the Material Institute every bit Graduate members.

Location

This course is based at High Holborn. Find out about the local area, including Lincoln'south Inn Fields and Clerkenwell, in our local expanse guides on the Student Life pages.

• Fashion Business organization facilities
• Facilities at High Holborn

LCF's motion

London College of Mode is planning to move to a new single campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023. This is role of a new evolution for London, prioritising culture, education and innovation, known as East Banking company. Some students studying this class from September 2021 may beginning their studies in Loftier Holborn and transfer to LCF's new site in Eastward London to consummate them. Please see LCF's move to the Olympic Park for more information about the College'southward relocation.

Material Institute

BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Merchandising (BA FBM) has been awarded Associateship level accreditation, CText ATI, by the Material Institute. Internationally recognised, the Textile Institute is the chartered professional body for all the textile, habiliment and footwear industries. As a student on this course yous are eligible to utilize for LTI (Licentiateship) when you graduate and CText ATI (Associateship) later one year working in industry (normally this would accept 5 years). This qualification demonstrates to employers that as well equally academic knowledge you have the vocational skills needed in the workplace. The qualification is globally recognised and internationally transferrable.

Each year, London College of Fashion hosts a Manner Business Schoolhouse Pinnacle, showcasing the graduate talent from the style business courses. The outcome includes talks, workshops and pupil piece of work.

Collaborative student project with ASOS

The LCF collaboration provided BA Style Buying & Merchandising, BA Fashion Marketing and BA Fashion Visual Merchandising and Branding students with unique insight and opportunity to explore this leading immature style retailer and the digital market place on a global scale.

Retail Futures in association with Shaftesbury PLC

Round Table Discussion, presented in association with Shaftesbury PLC, with some of the industry's near forward-thinking retail experts who volition predict the future of retail.

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  UAL's Carnival of Crisis demonstrates that the arts can – and must – reply to the climate and ecological emergency.

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  To compliment the immersive digital platforms, LCF Class of 2021 held the biggest celebration of earth-leading talent that LCF has ever staged with a 2 day in-person event at Victoria House Basement.

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  Grade of 2021

  The #LCFClassOf2021 Summer Showcase, launching from Monday five July, volition be the biggest celebration of world-leading talent that LCF has e'er staged – showcasing both BA and MA level students together for the first time.

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  Grade of 2020 - London College of Manner, UAL

  #LCFClassOf2020 is a dedicated showcase of LCF graduate work beyond channels.  The takeover will lead into the launch of the world's largest digital platform of fashion, pattern, communication, art and performance graduates.

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  LCF is delighted to announce that Professor Roni Brown has been appointed UAL Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of College at London College of Fashion.

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  Take a tour of LCF's globe renowned style library, ideal for research and study.

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  Take a tour of our fashion business organization facilities at John Prince's Street and Loftier Holborn.

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Form overview

Introduction

BA (Hons) Manner Ownership and Merchandising explores all levels of the market from value-orientated retailers to luxury brands.

What to expect

• Students will larn the importance of developing style awareness and business acumen through the analysis of buying and merchandising practice in both established, and new and emerging organisations.
• Students will explore the strategic human relationship between a style business and its customers.
• Students will acquire how businesses tin can develop through establishing different retail formats and entering new markets.
• The course incorporates theoretical, historical and professional person study.

Work feel and opportunities

Students will exist given the opportunity to undertake collaborative projects with other students, simulating industry practise. Students volition also gain industry relevant knowledge past working with a prestigious fashion company. National and international industry professionals are an integral part of study, with industry providing guest lectures and student projects. The opportunity to undertake an optional industry placement yr between the second and final year of the form enhances the employability of students by offer valuable experience and contacts within the industry as well as earning an additional Diploma in Professional Studies qualification.

Manner of study

BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Merchandising runs for ninety weeks in full time mode. Information technology is divided into three stages over 3 bookish years. Each stage lasts 30 weeks.

Class units

In Stage ane (Yr i) you lot are required to complete 120 credits at level 4 in society to progress to Phase 2 (Twelvemonth two):

• Introduction to Fashion Ownership and Merchandising (twenty credits)
• The Principles of Ownership and Merchandising (xx credits)
• Professional Skills Portfolio (20 credits)
• Production Development (xx credits)
• Mode Cultures and Histories (20 credits)
• Better Lives (20 credits)

In Stage 2 (Yr 2) yous are required to consummate 120 credits at level 5 to progress to Stage 3 (Year 3):

• Inquiry Methods for Fashion Business (20 credits)
• Critical Issues in Fashion Enquiry (twenty credits)
• Merchandise Planning and Trading (twenty credits)
• Retail Concept Development and Product Management (xl credits)
• Work Experience Based Learning (20 credits)

The Diploma in Professional Studies carries 120 credits, and constitutes an contained award. Credits accomplished on the Diploma are not office of the final caste honor.

The Diploma year is a single unit of measurement, undertaken as a form of full time study, with placement activity at its core. For those who accept up the option of studying the Diploma, the experience is designed to exist an integrated and assessed part of a pupil'south journey through the course. Information technology allows students the opportunity to experience the atmosphere, footstep and discipline of working in the manufacture, through full interest in the day-to-24-hour interval activities of a company. It will build on the knowledge gathered through grade work to practically demonstrate the roles and functions, and operations typical of the fashion industry and the educatee's chosen specialism.

In Stage 3 (Twelvemonth three) you are required to complete 120 credits at level 6:

• Futures and Innovation (twenty credits)
• Manner Ownership and Merchandising Strategy (xl credits)
• Last Major Project (60 credits)

Students successfully completing Stage 3 volition be awarded the caste BA (Hons) Mode Buying and Merchandising.

A xx-credit unit is approximately equivalent to 200 hours of learning fourth dimension, which includes a mixture of taught time, independent study and assessment.

Learning and instruction methods

The following teaching and learning methods are employed to support the integrated aims of the course outcomes:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Visiting Speakers
• Cocky-directed written report
• Collaboration

Cess methods

The following cess methods are employed to support the integrated aims of the course outcomes:

• Individual and group projects
• Summative testing
• Cocky-evaluation
• Exams
• Essays
• Business reports
• Presentations
• Manufacture projects
• Concluding major projection

Staff

Zoe Hinton is the course leader. She has an extensive groundwork in retail, having spent almost fifteen years in industry beyond diverse retailers. She ran buying teams at Business firm of Fraser and New Wait, managing the departmental finance to repeatedly deliver record profits. She spent her time in multi-product areas, buying products across categories and working with factories all over the world. She holds an external examiner postal service at Instituto Marangoni in both London and Paris, and has as well taught for both Conde Nast Higher of Way and Milano Politecnico. She has a PGCERT in Bookish do at distinction level, and is a Fellow of the HEA. Zoe has a keen involvement in pupil date and digital education, as well as experimentation with online platforms and interactive sites in order to improve pupil feel, and has published research regarding this. Read Zoe'south interview well-nigh the grade here.

Chloe Stonemason's has a breadth of knowledge of curricular, development, widening participation and learning and teaching co-ordination and personal tutorship. Her previous life was as a heir-apparent for Urban Outfitters, French Connexion and George at Asda. Buying across the categories of ladies, men'south and children's outerwear and underwear has given her the experience to spread her knowledge and help nurture students and savor their progress through the 3 or 4 years that they are with the Fashion Buying and Merchandising form.

Nicole Dunlopis the programme director. Nicole's career began with a degree in clothing and management at Manchester University where she was sponsored by Marks & Spencer, this too included a brusk spell in Paris at the Sorbonne. She started her career with Jaeger, as a member of their buying team, and eventually moved on to become the sourcing director for Adams. Having gained a qualification for marketing with the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) Nicole moved on to manage various consultancy projects with various retailers throughout Europe including Etam, Graduate Fashion Week, Harrods, Karstadt, La Rinascente, London Fashion Week, Matalan, Tencel, and Wrangler. She ultimately became head of marketing for the Hunter family of brands (best known for their iconic greenish welly), transforming it from the historic workwear brand into the mode icon that information technology is today. Nicole gained a distinction in her Post Graduate Teaching degree and has all-encompassing feel teaching at degree and masters level at several London business Universities, and CIM.

Ginny Hutt is a lecturer in Ownership and Merchandising and started educational activity at UAL after a 30 yr career in buying. She is a straight sourcing specialist, and has extensive feel working for United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and international brands such equally Arcadia, BHS, F&F at Tesco and Ralph Lauren where she was Buying Director. Ginny loves product and has covered most garment types during her career, working beyond Menswear, Womenswear, Childrenswear, Sportswear and Footwear. Ginny loves to share her experience and knowledge with students. She is the DiPS placement yr leader and works with students to back up them with their placements.

Mikael Persson is fashion lecturer in Future and Innovation, Creative Digital and Visual Communications. He graduated with a degree in Design Technology for the Fashion Industry followed past experience working with brands such as Michiko Koshino and Alexander McQueen and ran a London-based fashion streetwear brand, delivering graphic printed apparels to trend savvy, ethically witting millennials and Gen Z consumers.

Mikael entered mode related education equally a creative digital specialist to develop a strategy for delivering digital skills to way students based on industry demand. In addition to completing a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) for Post Compulsory Education Mikael has also completed a Post Graduate Cert in Learning and Pedagogy Art and Blueprint at Higher Education, from which he accomplished a 1st.

His ongoing enquiry interests include current and future creative fashion tech, design and visual communication.

Stephanie Liberman is a lecturer in Mode Buying and Merchandising. Post-obit a 22-year buying career she moved into teaching with the aim to inspire the adjacent generation. Production speciality areas include buying lingerie, swimwear, knitwear and jotter and working for multi-channel retailers Debenhams, Very, Sainsburys and Paperchase. She has besides run her ain lingerie boutique. Having started teaching and developing short courses for Artscom she then became course leader for the BA (hons) Fashion Marketing at Regent's University London earlier re-joining LCF.

Working in the style industry is an exciting and challenging career.  Buyers are at the forefront of today's market working at all levels from value to luxury.  The challenges of an every changing global economy attract students from around the world to learn their skills in London, one of the most attractive style capitals.  Live projects, manufacture speakers and professionals come up together to offer a unique educational experience that aims to evangelize the next generation of graduates for the Fashion Business Schoolhouse at London Higher of Fashion.

Stephanie Liberman, lecturer in Style Ownership and Merchandising

Katie de Ley is a lecturer in Style Buying and Merchandising at LCF.  She has an inherent passion for fashion and the article of clothing industry having been involved in selecting the habiliment range for her family'due south concatenation of franchised Benetton stores from a young historic period.  In her career, Katie has worked as a merchandiser for Etam plc, Firm of Fraser, Arcadia Grouping and Mosaic Fashions.

Merchandising is the backbone of the Buying and Merchandising retail environment.  Information technology requires someone who is strategic, analytical and results driven.  The BA (Hons) Fashion Ownership and Merchandising course at LCF teaches you the importance of meeting customer demands whilst balancing budgets and and making profit.  The central part of the Merchandiser is to minimise risks whilst optimising opportunity - the Merchandiser has to ensure the correct stock is delivered to the right stores at the right time!

Katie de Ley, lecturer in Fashion Ownership and Merchandising

Lois Baile is a role-time lecturer in Fashion Ownership and Merchandising at LCF. She started her career in the late 1980s through a merchandising route leading to UK and international directorships within major corporate style multi channel retailers. She has extensive feel of planning, trading , allocation and replenishment including change management within businesses to finer prepare for strategic redirection. Her career started within the Arcadia Group and progressed with BHS, Debenhams , Business firm of Fraser, New Look, Offset Friday ( consulting and training). The last 5 years have been spent away working in Italy and Turkey for Global Retailers Bata, LC Waikiki and Defacto.

There is such a requirement for adult skills to support the successful global retailers of the futurity . Courses provided by LCF gives students insight to the e'er changing and demanding globe of mode retailing. The College equips students for a greater understanding of the principles and methods employed inside the industry and gives them an introduction to the reality of working within successful trading businesses.

Lois Baile, lecturer in Fashion Ownership and Merchandising

How to apply

Information for disabled applicants

UAL is committed to achieving inclusion and equality for disabled students. This includes students who accept:

• Dyslexia or some other Specific Learning Divergence
• A sensory harm
• A physical impairment
• A long-term health or mental health condition
• Autism
• Another long-term condition which has an touch on on your day-to-day life

Our Disability Service arranges adjustments and support for disabled applicants and students. Read our Disability and dyslexia: applying for a course and joining UAL information.

Entry requirements

The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:

1 or a combination of the following accepted full level 3 qualifications.

• 112 UCAS tariff points from two or more A Levels (preferred subjects include Maths, Economics, Business organization Studies, Scientific discipline subjects, Information technology, Geography, Psychology and Languages);
• Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects Art & Design);
• Distinction at Foundation Diploma in Art and Blueprint;
• Merit at UAL Extended Diploma;
• Access Diploma or 112 new UCAS tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma;
• 112 new UCAS tariff points from a combination of the above qualifications or an equivalent full Level iii qualification;
• Or equivalent European union or non-European union qualifications such as International Baccalaureate Diploma at 25 points minimum;
• and six GCSE passes at grade A*-C or grade 9-four, with a grade B or 6 for Maths.

APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)

Applicants who practise not see these grade entry requirements may all the same be considered in exceptional cases. The form team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for case, exist demonstrated past:

• Related academic or work feel, preferably inside a style retail store environment or a work placement at a fashion retailer
• The quality of the personal statement
• A strong bookish or other professional person reference
• OR a combination of these factors

Each application will exist considered on its ain merit but we cannot guarantee an offering in each case.

English language Requirements

IELTS level 6.5 with a minimum of five.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Please check our main English Requirements.

Option criteria

The course squad seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate:

• Appropriate knowledge and skills commensurate with entry requirements for the course
• Clear academic interest in the report of ownership and merchandising
• Evidence of intelligent independent thinking
• An engagement with analytical and evaluative activities
• The power to communicate visually, verbally and in writing

Making your awarding

This section includes all the information you need on how to apply, how your awarding is considered and what happens side by side.

You should apply through UCAS – Universities and Colleges Admissions Service – and you will need the following data:

Academy code:          U65

UCAS Code:                 2F32

Deferring your place

This course accepts requests from offering holders to defer their place for one academic yr. Deferral requests are granted on a start-come, first-served basis until all deferral places are filled, or a deadline has been reached, whichever is sooner. Read our Admissions Policy for details, including how to request a deferral and by when.

Transfers

If you lot are currently studying somewhere else on a course in an equivalent subject field and would like to transfer to this class, yous can transfer to:

• Year 2 - if you've completed 120 credits in Yr 1.
• Year iii - if you've completely 240 credits in Years 1 and 2.

Utilise via UCAS and choose Yr 2 or 3 for your POE (Point of Entry)

Delight check our Student Transfer Policy for more important data and be ready to provide us with your electric current course handbook and Year 1/Yr 2 unit transcripts.

Please exist ready to provide an official certificate (translated into English) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you accept completed.

Application borderline

We recommend you apply past 26 January 2022 for equal consideration. However this course volition consider applications afterward that date, discipline to places existence bachelor.

You lot can only apply to the same course once per twelvemonth. Whatsoever duplicate applications will be withdrawn. Applications for this form can simply be accepted for this year of entry.

What happens next

All awarding forms, personal statements and references are read and considered past the course team against the selection criteria listed in the Entry Requirements and Selection Criteria sections.

How we notify y'all of the outcome of your application

If y'all applied through UCAS the result of your application will be communicated to you via UCAS through UCAS Track. You volition merely receive further communication directly from the College if your application has been successful. This will be in the form of a full offer pack including details of accommodation, fees, and other of import information.

This section includes all the data you need on how to utilise, how your application is considered and what happens next.

There are two means international students can apply to an undergraduate course:

• Through UCAS with the help of one of our official representatives in your country.
• Directly through UCAS.

Y'all must employ through UCAS, where you will need the following information:

• University lawmaking – U65
• UCAS course code – 2F32

Read our clearing and visa information to notice out if you need a visa to study at UAL.

You can only apply to the same class once per year. Any indistinguishable applications will be withdrawn. Applications for this course tin but be accepted for this year of entry. Applications for deferred entry cannot be accepted. Read the UAL international awarding advice for further data on how to utilise.

Deferring your place

This course accepts requests from offering holders to defer their place for one academic twelvemonth. Deferral requests are granted on a first-come, first-served basis until all deferral places are filled, or a deadline has been reached, whichever is sooner. Read our Admissions Policy for details, including how to asking a deferral and by when.

Transfers

If you are currently studying somewhere else on a course in an equivalent bailiwick area and would like to transfer to this course, you lot can transfer to:

• Year 2 - if you've completed 120 credits in Year i.
• Yr 3 - if you've completely 240 credits in Years 1 and ii.

Apply via UCAS and choose Year 2 or 3 for your POE (Point of Entry)

Please check our Student Transfer Policy for more than important information and exist ready to provide the states with your current class handbook and Year 1/Twelvemonth 2 unit of measurement transcripts.

If you are an International applicant and studying exterior the UK, please complete your Direct awarding and then contact usa via your UAL Portal to ask to be considered for Year 2/Twelvemonth 3.

Please be gear up to provide an official document (translated into English) from your electric current academy, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Application borderline

We recommend you use past 26 January 2022 for equal consideration. However this course will consider applications after that engagement, subject area to places being available.

What happens next

Immigration History Check

Whether you are applying online via UCAS or through a UAL representative you will need to complete an Clearing History Check to identify whether you are eligible to study at UAL.  Do be aware, if you do non consummate the Immigration History Check nosotros will not be able to go along with your application.

Initial application check

All application forms, personal statements and references are read and considered by the form squad confronting the selection criteria listed in the Entry requirements and Choice Criteria sections; the course team will then make up one's mind if they are able to make an offer based on the work you have demonstrated. It may be, however, that the tutor wishes to speak with you further virtually your awarding and then you lot will be invited to attend an online interview. Delight notation that non all applicants will exist invited to attend interview.

If you are made an offering, yous volition take the opportunity to appoint with class teams at a number of planned appointment activities, where you volition exist able to ask any questions you may have and also speak to current students studying on the grade.

How nosotros notify you of the outcome of your awarding

If you applied through UCAS the result of your application volition be communicated to you via UCAS through UCAS Rail. If y'all have applied directly or through an agent, we volition notify y'all through the UAL portal. Yous volition only receive farther communication direct from the Higher if your application has been successful. This will exist in the form of a full offering pack including details of accommodation, fees, and other important information.

Afterwards you apply

Afterward y'all've submitted your application, you'll receive a confirmation e-mail providing yous with your login details for the UAL Portal. We'll use this Portal to contact y'all to request whatever additional data, including inviting y'all to upload documents or book an interview, so please check it regularly.

One time nosotros've reviewed and assessed your awarding, we'll contact you via UCAS Runway or the UAL Portal to let y'all know whether your awarding has been successful.

Potential changes to course structure

Delight note: the information outlined is an indicative structure of the course. Whilst nosotros will aim to deliver the class every bit described on this page, there may be situations where it is desirable or necessary for the University to make changes in course provision, for example considering of regulatory requirements or operational efficiencies, before or subsequently enrolment. If this occurs, we will communicate all major changes to all applicants and students who have either practical or enrolled on the course. Please note that due to staff enquiry agreements or availability, not all of the optional modules listed may be available every yr. In addition, the provision of course options which depend upon the availability of specialist teaching, or on a placement at another institution, cannot exist guaranteed. Please check this chemical element of the course with the course team earlier making a determination to apply.

Webpage updates

We volition update this webpage from time to time with new information every bit it becomes available. In the meantime, if you take whatsoever questions, please employ this register your interest form.

Fees and funding

Home fee

£nine,250 per yr

This fee is right for 2022/23 entry and is subject to change for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students.

Home fees are currently charged to Great britain nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. Withal, the rules are circuitous. Discover out more almost our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£23,610 per twelvemonth

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is field of study to change for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees for international students may increment by upward to 5% in each future year of your course.

Students from countries outside of the UK will generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex and so read more than about tuition fees and determining your fee condition.

Careers and alumni

All of our undergraduate courses offer career development, and then that you become a artistic thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.

LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:

• An on-course work experience or placement year. Delight note, this is not available on every grade; delight run into the Class Details section for information almost work placement opportunities.
• Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and manufacture.
• Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and ane-to-one advice sessions.
• Admission to a graduate careers service
• Admission to a live jobsboard for all years.
• Advice on setting up your own brand or company.

Graduates who wish to go along their education at postgraduate level can progress to suitable courses inside the College, the Academy or elsewhere.

Career paths

Students have gained employment in a variety of roles in Buying and Merchandising with a number of companies including Matches, John Lewis, Marks and Spencers, H&M and Topshop. The transferable skills students have acquired have also seen our alumni progress into aligned roles in areas such as supply chain, visual merchandising, and marketing. This is a new form so nosotros have no graduates as yet. Graduates from the Foundation Degree in buying and merchandising, which is replaced by this form, take gained employment in a diverseness of buying and merchandising roles with a number of companies including Yoox Net-a-Porter, Phase 8, The White Visitor, Lipsy, Zalando, Top Store, JD Sports, Matches, John Lewis, Disney, Whistles, Jigsaw, ASOS, Debenhams, Marks and Spencers, Primark, Ralph Lauren, River Isle, Finery, New Await, Harrods, Selfidge'south, Liberty's, Ted Baker, Jaques Vert, H&M, AllSaints, TopShop, Reiss, Arcadia, Whistles, Jaeger, Burberry and ASOS. Two graduates from that course take moved into the visual merchandising field through the transferable skills they acquired, and are working as visual merchandisers at Abercrombie and Fitch and Urban Outfitters.

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