Business with Fashion BA (Hons)

**Summary**: This broad-based degree gives you a comprehensive understanding of business concepts and models with specialist knowledge of fashion design management, fashion cultures and the fashion industry.**Course details**: You study business organisation, management, leadership and enterprise combined with specialist modules in the business of fashion. This programme will be particularly of interest to those seeking to pursue careers in fashion management and related roles in the wider fashion industry internationally including key management roles in leading companies, services agencies and fashion start-ups. Between Year 2 and your final year, you have the opportunity to spend a year in industry on placement, or study abroad at one of our partner institutions. Alternatively you could proceed on to the final year.**After the course**: Due to the diverse nature of the degree our students are able to demonstrate progression within their current employment in a range of businesses and sectors and also secure roles from general business manager to social media executive, international business representative to social entrepreneur, and retail manager to new business adviser. We provide an environment that allows you to develop the extra practical employability characteristics that will make you more attractive to employers in the job market in the years to come. All programmes are designed to incorporate employability skills development alongside your degree course. Our staff use their extensive business connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lecture sessions, live projects and site visits.We offer a series of workshops and events in the first, second and third years to ensure you are equipped with both degree level subject knowledge plus the practical skills that employers are looking for in new graduate recruits. We also offer extensive support for you to find and secure industry year placements which have been shown to make have significant positive impact on a student’s career prospects on graduation. Our award-winning careers service works with regional and national employers to advertise graduate positions, in addition to providing post-graduation support for all Teesside University alumni.