Fashion Design (Top up) BA (Hons)

The BA (Hons) top-up follows a modular structure and takes your learning and skills to a further level allowing your specialist skills to flourish towards the career you want. You will consider the wider cultural context to underpin your studio work and focus on your own personal design statement, culminating in your collection being shown at the End of Year Degree Show. In addition to our End of Year Degree Show, students fundraise to showcase their work to industry at events such as Graduate Fashion Week or New Designers in London.Career ProgressionWe work with a panel of well-respected people from within the fashion and textiles industry to ensure that our course keeps up-to-date with the expectations of an ever-changing industry. As a result, University Centre Somerset students have a great reputation for securing employment upon completion of their studies.Recent graduates have gone on to jobs in design, retail management, buying and fashion promotion. They've worked with employers including Courtaulds, Abercrombie and Fitch, Sassi Holford, Fat Face, Debenhams Fashion Design team, Ashley Isham, Miss Selfridge, Next, New Look Design Team, Peacock's buying team and Vivienne Westwood. Others have progressed on to a postgraduate level studying an MA or PGCE.