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Fashion Media & Marketing

Arts University Plymouth

UCAS Code: NW52 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Arts University Plymouth

UCAS Code: NW52 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff

104-120

Although many of our students do come in with top grades and high UCAS points, these aren’t necessarily essential for entry. We typically ask for a minimum of 104 UCAS points, but we understand that talented artists, designers and makers can have a wide range of relevant strengths and skills beyond formal qualifications. We’re just as interested in exploring your portfolio as we are in seeing your grades.

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About this course

This course has alternative study modes. Contact the university to find out how the information below might vary.

Course option

3years

Full-time | 2025

Other options

4 years | Sandwich | 2025

6 years | Part-time | 2025

Subjects

Media production

Fashion

Delve into the dynamic realm of fashion communication, where social media campaigns and fashion shoots intertwine with discussions on evolving technology and evolving consumer behaviour. This hands-on degree fosters creativity and innovation in all aspects of fashion communication and promotion.

**Why Choose this Course?**
**BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing** empowers you to strategically engage with the dynamic world of fashion, emphasising experiential and digital futures. Your learning environment will be enriched with an enviable programme of client briefs, competitions, work placements and guest speakers.

Cultivate strong conceptual, visual, and written communication skills, master techniques such as photography, moving image, analytics, market research, art direction, styling, social media, and advertising, this energetic program prepares you for success in the evolving landscape of fashion communication and promotion.

Gather intelligence and insight from the cultural landscape, turning it into exciting multimedia communications for print, digital, and campaign design. With support from experienced industry professionals and expert technicians, you will transform contextual sources into broadcast media, observing themes such as culture and appropriation, customer behaviour, commodity and business strategies.

Expand your critical approach with reflective, analytical writing, and research enabling you to build strong conceptual, visual, and communication skills. From the exploration of fashion history and culture to contemporary contexts and future-forecasting, you will be encouraged to interrogate fashion media and marketing's role in society.

Professional software inductions, such as Adobe Suite, will empower you to convey your message in innovative formats. Benefit from extensive access to on-site photographic studios and labs, craft mood boards, conduct model castings and select garments, through to post-production, conceptualise creative strategies that propel products into national and global target markets.

**Benefit from Industry Links and Exposure**
We enrich our learning environment with an aspirational programme of live industry projects, guest speakers, and internships. Recent course contributors have included Vogue, ID Magazine, Dazed Digital, It’s Nice That, Dior Homme, GQ, Size?, Converse, Pro Direct, Amazon, Urban Outfitters, Topshop, Ellesse, and Finisterre.

Alongside attending key fashion events including Milan and Paris Fashion Week, our students also investigate current trends and market insights, enjoying access to global forecasting tools like WGSN and The Future Laboratory to enable real-time rolling analysis of industry activity.

**Professional Practice, Career Opportunities, and Skills Development**
During your studies, you'll develop key professional, transferable skills for employability in creative industries, fostering partnerships locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally.

In close consultation with Industry Liaison Groups, informing the development of our higher education curriculum, real-world experience is at the core of our **BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing** course.

Collaborating with industry professionals, you'll craft visual branding, professional lookbooks, and moving image projects. This hands-on approach enhances your online marketing skills, fostering an original approach to fashion communication. Recent collaborators were; Dean Huse, The Protagonist, Magazine Editor, Ram Shirgill, Vogue, Photographer, Kylie Griffiths, Vice, Stylist, Liam Fuller, Fashion Photographer & Retoucher, Amy Gwatkin, Fashion Filmmaker and more.

Graduates can become; creative directors, art directors, fashion filmmakers, fashion photographers, journalists, stylists, content producers, social media managers, visual merchandisers, trend forecasters, buyers, PR and marketing coordinators, brand managers and event managers.

Modules

Our Fashion Communication programme enables you to develop strong conceptual, visual and written communication skills, and explore a broad range of techniques in art direction, styling, photography, film, graphics, retail design, fashion writing, social media and advertising. By cultivating an original approach to fashion media and marketing, you will graduate with a varied portfolio of creative work, produced using an array of traditional and digital media, and preparing you for a bright future in the fast-moving fashion industry. Recent guests in our programme of live projects, guest speakers and internships include Dazed and Confused, Urban Outfitters and Opumo.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,535
per year
England
£9,535
per year
EU
£17,250
per year
International
£17,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,535
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,535
per year
Scotland
£9,535
per year
Wales
£9,535
per year

The Uni

Course location:

Arts University Plymouth

Department:

Arts, Design and Media

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What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if the overall teaching satisfaction score here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

100%
Media production
92%
Fashion

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Media studies

Teaching and learning

68%
Staff make the subject interesting
90%
Staff are good at explaining things
68%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
71%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

74%
Library resources
81%
IT resources
90%
Course specific equipment and facilities
65%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

98%
UK students
2%
International students
38%
Male students
62%
Female students
67%
2:1 or above
16%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
B
A

Design studies

Teaching and learning

81%
Staff make the subject interesting
88%
Staff are good at explaining things
82%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
76%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

71%
Library resources
82%
IT resources
79%
Course specific equipment and facilities
67%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

95%
UK students
5%
International students
13%
Male students
87%
Female students
63%
2:1 or above
13%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
B
A*

After graduation

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

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This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.

Fashion

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£22,000
low
Average annual salary
88%
med
Employed or in further education
45%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Media production

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£15k

£15k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

Design studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£15k

£15k

£19k

£19k

£18k

£18k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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