Our BA (Hons) Fashion Design course has an established reputation, with exceptional national and international links within the fashion Industry, as well as a recognised global presence.

NTU fashion graduates are renowned within the industry for their creative, innovative and directional design skills, as well as a strong underlying awareness of commerciality, sustainability and technologies.

Key features

• Get involved with competitions and live projects with companies like Oasis, Boohoo, Mulberry, ASOS, River Island and Burberry.
• We're ranked 16th in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (The Guardian University Guide 2021).
• Benefit from guest lecturers such as Giles Deacon, Christopher Raeburn, and internationally renowned Japanese pattern cutting expert Shingo Sato.
• During your time here, you will be given the opportunity to showcase your work to members of the creative industries. 
• There is an opportunity to be nominated for the Sarabande Foundation: Lee Alexander McQueen scholarship.
• Go on optional international study trips to events like Paris Fashion Week.
• Opportunity to apply for a European or international exchange to one of our partner institutions, including the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and more.
• We are proud to be in the top ten in England and Wales for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).
• 97% of BA (Hons) Fashion Design students would recommend studying at NTU. (National Student Survey 2020).
• You’ll study in our lively and highly creative fashion studios based in the Bonington building.

Our graduates go into a range of fashion-related roles across the world such as designers, product developers and buyers. Recent graduate destinations include:

• ASOS
• Abercrombie & Fitch
• Burberry
• Coach
• George
• H&M
• Mulberry
• Next
• River Island
• Roksanda
• Topshop
• Tom Ford
• Victoria Beckham
• Vivienne Westwood
• Yohji Yamamoto.

Our students have also had success at: The Young Ideas 50 Years in Fashion Illustration Competition, the Young Creators to the World contest at Lima Fashion Week in Peru and the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers’ Contest (YDC).