International Fashion Buying Management BA (Hons)

About the course

Our International Fashion Buying Management course will help you develop the skills for exciting careers such as trend forecasting, range planning, merchandising, marketing and sourcing.

Why study International Fashion Buying Management?

• Use our resources and our inter-disciplinary environment to personalise your learning and develop a wide range of skills to help you become a confident player in the exciting fashion industry.
• Share modules with students on other fashion courses, enabling you to develop a broad understanding of the industry and the opportunities within it before focusing on your specialism of international fashion buying management.
• Learn how to research and identify market opportunities, work collaboratively and manage professional business relationships effectively.
• You’ll have the chance take part in innovative focused projects that simulate industry practice to develop the experience you'll need to succeed in the global industry.

Our course will help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to apply your creativity and expertise within a commercial framework that directly reflects current fashion industry practice. The dynamic environment of fashion buying provides diverse, challenging and exciting opportunities in roles such as trend analysis, fashion buying, merchandising, new product development and sourcing.

Your career

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to enjoy successful careers in buying, merchandising, product development, sourcing, e-commerce and management consultancy. Fashion graduates have gone on to work for companies including Burberry, Ted Baker, Next, Missguided, Zalando, ASOS, M&S, Tesco, Boohoo, White Stuff, and Arcadia group brands Topshop and Topman.

We've also had students delivering exciting live projects for brands such as Coach, L.K. Bennett, Topshop, and Primark. Enriching your learning will be a series of field trips to exhibitions and other appropriate cultural and commercial events; these will complement your studies and inspire your ideas