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Fashion Business and Promotion

  • BA (Hons)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-time
  • 09/2025
  • Undergraduate
Peel Park Campus
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Course summary

Fashion increasingly relies upon the influence of social media buying, merchandising, communication, promotion, and advertising. This course prepares you to take a leading role in this ever-changing, fast-moving industry.

This BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion degree course will enable you to consider the fashion industry in its entirety while developing a broad range of practical, and technical skills required to succeed. You’ll be studying within our dynamic and award-winning Fashion department within Greater Manchester. Our location includes independent Fashion designers, retailers, and multi-million-pound online Fashion brands so you will be within one of the most important up and coming centres for the future of the global Fashion industry.

This fashion and business promotion degree course will introduce you to the importance of sustainability and enable you to define your own role in shaping the future of fashion retail. You will develop real-time skills with the knowledge understanding of blogging, influencers, marketing, trend prediction whilst all the time developing essential analysis and business entrepreneurial skills.

You will experience live industry projects and a work placement in your second year gaining unique practical experience alongside presentations from industry leaders and opportunity for career building networking events.

In the final year of the course, you will complete a personal project building a portfolio of work to showcase your individual interests, talent and establish your reputation as a fashion business and promotion professional.
You Will

Join a supportive fashion community at Salford that’s truly passionate about fashion promotion and business practices.
Discover how the business and promotion of fashion works in the wider global industry.
Work with our Industry partners who have included Wicker Wings, Both Barrels, Silpa & By Gibbs
Study visits to design studios and businesses within the UK
Work Placement, Networking and employability working with small business start-ups and the Universities business growth hub.
Learn essential skills in Adobe Illustrator, Spark Pages, InDesign & Photoshop
Graduate with a diverse portfolio of work that can be used to land that perfect role in the fashion industry or further study at masters level.

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Modules

Year one
-The Customer Journey

  • Bloggers, Vloggers and Influencers
  • Fashion Graphics Introduction
  • Fashion Marketing, Ethical Practice and Buying
  • Fashion Communication and Media

Year two

  • The Future of Shopping
  • Advanced Fashion Media
  • Enterprise in Action
  • Personal Business Project
  • Industry Live Briefs/Work Experience

Year three

  • E-marketing and Branding Strategies
  • Fixing Fashion: A Sustainable Future
  • Buying and Product Development
  • Major Personal Project

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Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Peel Park Campus

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 09/2025

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:
W2N1
Institution code:
S03
Campus name:
Peel Park Campus
Campus Code:
-
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:
W2N1
Institution code:
S03
Campus name:
Peel Park Campus
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

UCAS Tariff - 104 - 112 points

Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Points. Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential General Studies accepted.

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

Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

Access to HE Diploma

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points. Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

Scottish Higher

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points. Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 30 - 31 points

Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

104 - 112 UCAS tariff points. Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential. You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements in addition to the Level 3 qualification requirements.

T Level - M

Art & Design / Business subject preferred but not essential

Additional entry requirements

Other
As part of your application, we will also ask you to create a mood board and written piece, to provide opportunity for you to share your creative practice with us. Once you’ve made your application to study with us, we’ll contact you and let you know the next steps.

English language requirements

International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.0 (no element below 5.5) is proof of this.

Historical entry grades data BETA

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