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**This is a Connected Degree**
Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after youve started your course.
**Overview**
Bring your creative and original ideas to life on our multi-award-winning Fashion Design degree course.
Youll develop your innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking via our te...
**This is a Connected Degree**<br/>Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after youve started your course.<br/><br/>**Overview**<br/>Bring your creative and original ideas to life on our multi-award-winning Fashion Design degree course. <br/><br/>Youll develop your innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking via our teaching approach – which integrates sustainable and ethical design principles, focuses on your unique strengths, and shapes you into a confident and cultured professional. Youll also develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through exchange and enterprise projects, and you’ll build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-level facilities.<br/><br/>Using innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design means now and in the future.<br/><br/>**Course highlights**<br/><br/><br/>- Master traditional and modern fashion design methods including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen and digital printing, embroidery and constructed textiles<br/><br/><br/>- Further your creativity, research, practice and environmental specialism by taking part in our sustainable fashion research project PO1<br/><br/><br/>- Bolster your entrepreneurship by setting up your own label or fashion company as part of your studies<br/><br/><br/>- Gain valuable industry experience by taking an optional placement – either with a company or as self-employed<br/><br/><br/>- Enhance your collaboration and team-working skills by working with other students on other courses in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries<br/><br/><br/>- Get insight into the fashion industry by attending guest lectures by visiting international professionals – previous visitors include Julian Roberts, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato<br/><br/><br/>- Impress potential employers by exhibiting your work at the University’s annual graduate shows and Graduate Fashion Week showcases in London<br/><br/><br/>**Careers and opportunities**<br/>Our collaborative and project-orientated course will give you the skills to become highly employable.<br/><br/>Graduate areas<br/><br/>Our graduates have worked across design, marketing, communications and commerce in areas such as:<br/><br/><br/>- fashion, textile or accessories design<br/><br/><br/>- trend prediction<br/><br/><br/>- buying<br/><br/><br/>- visual merchandising<br/><br/><br/>- teaching or lecturing<br/><br/><br/>- journalism or writing<br/><br/><br/>Graduate destinations<br/><br/>Our graduates have worked with some of the biggest names in fashion and major retailers, including:<br/><br/><br/>- Ralph Lauren<br/><br/><br/>- Hugo Boss<br/><br/><br/>- Matthew Williamson<br/><br/><br/>- River Island<br/><br/><br/>- Fat Face<br/><br/><br/>- Marks and Spencer<br/><br/><br/>After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.<br/><br/>Graduate startups<br/><br/>Previous students on this course have also set up their own fashion and textile labels. For example:<br/><br/><br/>- Sunny Williams set up his label, House of Sunny, in 2011 and has developed minimal, androgynous aesthetic womenswear, which sells internationally and is stocked by ASOS<br/><br/><br/>- Nikki Strange created her own-name line for Marks and Spencer in 2015 and also works as a freelance textile designer and visiting lecturer.<br/>
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Course Details
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Study Mode
Sandwich
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
22/09/2025
Campus
Main Site
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
W231
Institution Code
P80
Points of Entry
Year 1, Year 2, Year 3
UCAS TariffScottish HigherAcceptable when combined with other qualifications. Access to HE Diploma112-122 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma. International Baccalaureate Diploma ProgrammePearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)GCSE/National 4/National 53 GCSEs at grade C or above to include English/3 GCSEs at grade 4 or above to include English. Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF)Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)Acceptable when combined with other qualifications. Scottish Advanced Higher112-120 Tariff points. Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - PrincipalCambridge Pre-U score of 46-50. Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)112-120 points from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate including 1 A level, plus the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate. Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)Acceptable when combined with other qualifications. A levelT Level |
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