Fashion Design with Marketing BA(Hons)
Start Dates
21 September 2026
Duration
3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year
UCAS Tariff
120-104
Overview
Why choose Huddersfield for this course?
- Combine fashion design with marketing, allowing you to specialise and shape your future career direction.
- Develop your own design identity and professional portfolio, showcasing creativity, technical skill, and branding.
- Work in industry-standard studios and workshops, with access to digital tools and expert technical support.
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Fashion Design with Marketing at Huddersfield combines creativity, technical skill, and industry insight to prepare you for a dynamic career in fashion. The course places strong emphasis on fashion design practice, while also allowing you to specialise in marketing, giving you the flexibility to explore a range of career pathways including fashion design, brand creation, merchandising, and marketing.
Throughout the course, you will develop your skills as a fashion designer through practical, studio-based learning. You will work through the full design process, from research, concept development, and trend exploration to fabric testing, pattern cutting, garment construction, and final presentation. You’ll be encouraged to experiment with materials and silhouettes, refine your technical abilities, and develop your own creative style. Alongside this, you will build a professional portfolio that reflects both your design identity and your understanding of the fashion industry.
In addition to design, you will learn key marketing skills such as brand development, fashion communication, and consumer engagement. This will help you understand how fashion products and collections are positioned, promoted, and sold, and how designers connect with audiences in a competitive global industry.
Teaching is delivered by experienced staff and supported by specialist technicians in our state-of-the-art Barbara Hepworth Building. You will have access to professional design studios, pattern cutting and garment construction workshops, CAD facilities, and digital printing equipment, providing you with the space and support needed to realise your creative ideas.
Live projects, competitions, and optional placements offer valuable industry experience and opportunities to build professional networks. By the end of the course, you will graduate with strong technical skills, industry knowledge, and a creative portfolio, ready for a career in fashion design, marketing, or a related creative field.
Career opportunities after the course *
Visual Merchandiser
Fashion Designer
Retail Merchandiser
Seamstress
Womenswear Designer
*Lightcast
Entry Requirements
BBB-BCC at A Level or equivalent.
120-104 UCAS tariff points from a combination of Level 3 qualifications.
Merit at T Level.
DMM-MMM in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma.
Merit in UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma.
Merit in RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma.
Pass in Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design combined with A Level or BTEC qualifications, to total an equivalent of 120-104 UCAS tariff points.
Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits at Merit or above.
120-104 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications.
If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.
Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.
If you do not have the appropriate qualifications for direct entry to this degree you may be able to apply to our Art, Design and Architecture Foundation Pathway Degree.
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Global Professional Award
At Huddersfield, you’ll study the award-winning Global Professional Award (GPA) alongside your degree* — so you’re ready for the career you want, whatever subject you choose.
Placements
The course offers an optional one-year (36 weeks minimum) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad. This will give you the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, insight into your chosen career and open up your graduate employment prospects. Our Placement Unit and academic staff have excellent industry links and can support you in applying for and finding your placement(s), as well as during your placement year.
Students from our suite of Fashion courses have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: Urban Outfitters - London, ITV’s This Morning –London; Haddow Group – Bradford; Ted Baker – Leeds and Alexander McQueen – London.
The fashion industry is extremely competitive, so I knew doing a placement would help me gain real industry experience and ultimately help me get a job after I graduate.
- Amarah Hussain
Garment Technologist at Matalan
Your Career
This course aims to help you to develop the skills needed for roles in designing, styling, merchandising, buying, range selection, management, marketing and promotion, fashion journalism, product development and manufacturing. Our graduates have gone on to varying careers with companies Some of our students have recently undertaken placements in PR and marketing, design assistant, wardrobe assistant and product development roles, with companies such as Urban Outfitters, Temperley (London), Julien Macdonald, Oxfam, Jolaby, River Island, and AX Paris.**
Source: **GEMS
83-90%
Percent of graduates from these subject areas were in work or further study 15 months after graduation
* HESA Graduate Outcomes 22/23, UK Domiciled
I found my passion for designing and had my final collection used in a Vidal Sassoon photoshoot. Through hard-work and dedication I received a first in my degree and went on to set up my own online swimwear brand sianmarie.com - furthermore becoming the winner of BBC's The Apprentice 2018.
- Sian Gabbidon
Fashion Design with Marketing BA(Hons) graduate
Fees and Finance
This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
From January 2027 the UK government is launching a new student funding system for people starting university education. Read more about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/study/fees/
This information is for international students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/fees-and-funding/
Home
The tuition fee for a placement year is £1000. If you go on work experience or work placement, you will need to fund your own travel and/or accommodation costs to and from the placement. Please be aware that if your placement is outside of the UK, you will still be responsible for your travel and living expenses and may need to consider issues like health care and insurance costs.
International
The tuition fee for a placement year is £3,300. If you go on work experience or work placement, you will need to fund your own travel and/or accommodation costs to and from the placement. Please be aware that if your placement is outside of the UK, you will still be responsible for your travel and living expenses and may need to consider issues like health care and insurance costs.
Materials:
Basic materials will be provided during the first and second years of the course, including pattern paper, thread and calico fabric. You’ll need to supply some of your own materials, including sewing equipment, art materials and printing. The costs may vary based on the materials you choose. During your first and second years we endeavour to gain fabric sponsorship for all first and second year projects. If no fabric sponsorship can be gained the maximum cost will be approximately £100 per student in Year 1 and £200 per student in Year 2. In the final year you’ll need to supply the materials you require to produce your major collection. There is no limit on the amount you may wish to spend, however as a guide, costs in recent years have ranged from £200 to £1500 per student for this project.
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Gallery
See below for a glimpse at some of our facilities
Fashion and Costume Studio
Embroidery studio
Print and Dye Studio
Digital Print Centre
Barbara Hepworth Building
A gallery of work from our Fashion Design students.
Final Year Fashion Design with Marketing Project -
Uunity is a consumer-led, politically inspired luxury womenswear tailoring brand inspired by the 1984 miners' strike in Yorkshire. Uunity is a conscious brand that prioritises sustainability, is born from personal family heritage, and explores the importance of women during the miners' strike.
Elly Shuttleworth - Final Designs
Elly’s line up for her final collection made sustainably from dead stock fabrics.
Second Year Tailoring in collaboration with HTAFC
Celebrating Town’s rich sporting heritage, the tailoring module provided students with the opportunity to use luxury ‘Made in Huddersfield’ cloth, kindly donated by Dugdale’s Bros and Co. Alongside working with fine woollen cloth, students communicated HTAFC iconography of sporting memorabilia and heritage through digital print and computerised embroideries which complimented bespoke tailoring techniques and processes.
Second Year Creative Cut in collaboration with Hal
Students used Halfpenny London Crepe Back Satin to create outfits reflecting the brand’s principles and hybrid creative cut method. After a briefing with Kate Halfpenny, they developed stand-based concepts exploring proportion, volume, layering, and innovative fabric and pattern-cutting techniques.
Sarah Wheatley
Final Collection Marketing poster for White Wave Ski
Daniella Armitage
“Crossed Borders” is a unisex collection exploring the hybridisation of functional wear and streetwear whilst also addressing the lack of practicality in contemporary streetwear design. Drawing inspiration from personal family archive imagery and vintage country-wear magazines, the collection merges the functional aspects with the aesthetics of streetwear design. Each piece is consciously crafted exclusively from dead-stock fabrics, highlighting a commitment to sustainability in response to the issue of over consumption.”
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