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Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles

  • BA (Hons)
  • 4 Years
  • Sandwich
  • 15 September 2025
  • Undergraduate
City Campus
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Course summary

This highly respected degree offers you full creative control over the design and creation of fabrics, garments and products for fashion or interiors. You will develop your creative potential through developing technical and design skills, including innovative digital knit processes that are in high demand in the fashion and textile industry.

  • Explore contemporary fashion and textile design, product development, and styling. Use of specialist state-of-the art digital equipment alongside traditional hand techniques.

  • Choose to take a year-long work placement, in the UK or abroad, and gain a certificate or diploma in professional / international practice, this opportunity often leads to offers of employment after graduation.

  • Get involved in competitions and live projects with industry with companies such as Next, John Smedley, Boden, Finisterre and The Society of Dyers and Colourists.

  • Visit international trade fairs and exhibitions, such as Pitti Filati in Florence.

  • Opportunity to apply for a European or international exchange to one of our partner institutions, such as Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Amsterdam Fashion Institute, and more.

  • Have the opportunity to showcase your work at Graduate Fashion Week and New Designers in London and through collaborations with organisations such as SPINEXPO and Pitti Filatti.

  • Educational grants and sponsorship opportunities available through our industry partners.

Assessment

Assessment is predominantly through coursework. You will receive feedback throughout each module and will be awarded a grade for your work.

Employability

Recent year-long placements include: Burberry, Sophie Steller ,Marks & Spencer, Julian McDonald, Roksanda, South Ocean Yarns in China, Brilliant Global in Hong Kong, Hugo Boss in Switzerland, Rebecca Taylor and Li & Fung in New York.

Graduates go into fields such as design, product development, styling and promotion and global sourcing. Recent graduate destinations include Hugo Boss, Nike, Calvin Klein, John Smedley, ASOS, Boden, Oasis, and Next.

Your space to create at NTU

We’re committed to helping you explore, expand and refine your craft, as you discover new creative horizons with some truly great tools, equipment and workspaces. Visit our facilities hub at www.ntu.ac.uk/artfacilities to find out more.

Our students’ work – ‘We Are Creatives’

Explore our online showcase ‘We Are Creatives’ - celebrating the work of the School of Art & Design students. You will find a sneak peak of some of our students’ work and gain a real insight into what it’s like to be part of the NTU creative community at wearecreativesntu.art

Modules

[Year One]

• Curiosity: Creative Exploration and Research (40 credit points, full year)
• Curiosity: Creative Development and Application for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (80 credit points, full year)

[Year Two]

• Directions: Industry and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (40 credit points, first half of the year)
• Directions: Innovation and Transition for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (40 credit points, second half of the year)
• Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking (20 credit points, second half of the year)
• Optional Module (20 credit points, first half of the year). Choose from:
• Slow Making and Craftmanship
• Trend Forecasting
• Buying, Merchandising and Product Fundamentals
• Human Stories and Inclusive Design
• Introduction to 3D Virtual Clothing & Product Design
• Made to Last: Clothing Longevity for Circularity
• Creative Live Event Production
• Web3 & Creative Autonomy

[Year Three]

• Work Placement Year

[Final year]

• Resolutions: Culture and Context (20 credit points, first half of the year / 40 credit points, full year)
• Resolutions: Practice and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (100 / 80 credit points, full year)

Assessment method

People excel in different ways, and we want everybody to have the best possible chance of success. On this course you will be assessed on a range of individual and group presentations, and your final year project.

Year 1 coursework (100%)
Year 2 coursework (90%), practical exams (10%)
Year 3 optional placement year
Year 4 course work (100%)
Your work in Year Two accounts for 20% of your final degree mark, and your work in your final year accounts for the other 80%.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • City Campus

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Sandwich • 4 Years

Start dates

  • 15 September 2025

Apply by
29 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
W222
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Campus Code:
1
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W222
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Campus Code:
1

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff 104 - 112 points

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) DMM

DMM from a BTEC Extended Diploma

Access to HE Diploma

Pass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and up to two other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and up to three other qualifications (one of which must be A-Level equivalent).

T Level

We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.

Additional entry requirements

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Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

NTU makes contextual offers for this course to give everyone a fair chance to access their chosen degree.

Contextual offers are lower than our standard entry criteria or may be an unconditional offer for courses that require a portfolio. We also take individual circumstances into account when we receive results and may accept grades lower than our published criteria.

We use a range of data from UCAS to make our offers and more information on our approach is available at the link below.

Learn more on the Nottingham Trent University website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Additional fee information

Tuition fees are payable for each year that you are at University.

The level of tuition fees for the second and subsequent years of your undergraduate course may increase in line with inflation and as specified by the UK government.

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