Programme overview
The fast-moving business of fashion is becoming even more dynamic requiring fashion leaders with advanced management skills that are purpose-driven, agile, and visionary.
MA Global Fashion Management (MA GFM) is a globally focussed postgraduate programme allowing students to gain further vital competencies, knowledge, and skills in fashion management. This programme develops future managers capable of managing multinational fashion companies and brands. The programme also increases students’ capacity to shape the fashion industry by creating maximum value for stakeholders, consumers, and brands.
Creative strategic thinking is at the heart of MA GFM. With a strong balance between theory (academic) and practice (industry), students will engage with a unique blend of global fashion management themes, such as current issues in the industry, creative engagement, retail technologies, and consumption experience.
Students will study at two internationally renowned Schools at the University of Leeds. The School of Design, as the principal school, affords students to draw creative mastery, inspiration, and ideas from various creative resources. Studying at the Business School will enhance strategic thinking and sharpens the business acumen of students.
MA Global Fashion Management is built upon the three pillars of design, business and research. The three pillars will help students be more prepared for the future-facing fashion industry and explore its intersections with technology, innovative business models, ethics and sustainability and other global issues.
Students will study the three design-led management specialist modules: Contemporary Fashion Management, Fashion Sustainability and Society, and Data Analysis in Management. Students will also study two business-led modules, Cross-cultural Consumer Psychology and Managing Global Logistics and Supply Chain. Research in Design and Enterprise will provide students with an array of skills to be more ready for their major project and the industry.
MA Global Fashion Management has been developed in consultation with leading fashion retailers. It represents a new direction in amalgamating retail-systems management, business, and design thinking research within global fashion. This programme equips students with comprehensive knowledge, skills and competencies required for strategic and senior roles in the fashion industry.
Programme details
The main module of the programme spans semesters one and two. In the first semester, students will explore the fundamental elements of the fashion business by covering the processes of fashion systems, sustainable and ethical approaches, fashion consumers and design thinking in management. The second semester will augment students’ fashion management underpinning by exploring retail and fashion marketing, data analysis, supply chain and creative research approaches. As students advance, the final semester allows them to conduct a global fashion management major project, enabling them to showcase the sum of all they have learnt over their studies.
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DESN5115M | Research in Design and Enterprise | 30 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| DESN5184M | Fashion Sustainability and Society | 15 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| DESN5185M | Contemporary Fashion Management, Values and Consumption Experience | 30 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| DESN5186M | Data Analysis in Management | 15 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| DESN5187M | MA Global Fashion Management Major Project | 60 | 1 May to 31 Aug | |
| LUBS5231M | Managing Global Logistics and Supply Chains | 15 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| LUBS5423M | Cross-Cultural Consumer Psychology | 15 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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