Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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UCAS code: WN25
Here's what University of Sunderland says about its Fashion Design and Promotion course.
Explore every aspect of fashion. Gain an understanding and experience in fashion design, and fashion promotion and marketing. Launch your career with the skills needed in the growing and exciting fashion industry, with career paths including design, styling, promotion, marketing, manufacturing, visual merchandising, buying and selling.
Can’t decide between fashion design and fashion promotion and marketing? You don’t have to. This course gives you skills and crucial understanding in both areas.
In fashion design you’ll develop concepts, explore materials, design fabrics through to full fashion collections, and develop an understanding of the manufacturing processes. You'll gain all the skills you'll need to construct garments; such as pattern making, cutting, sewing, fabric printing, and craftsmanship; all while discovering new technologies.
In the fashion promotion and marketing pathway, you'll consider the whole fashion market, analyse future trends, develop brands, learn the marketing mix, gain an understand of visual merchandising, create promotional materials, and plan and manage events, including fashion shows. You’ll learn graphic design, styling and photography and will have access to our fashion journalism expertise.
Throughout the course you’ll be nurtured, supported and developed by our expert team. They are on hand to guide you and help choose your preferred pathway. They have many years’ experience working and teaching in fashion, specialising in sustainability, garment construction, design, promotion and marketing. The course will prepare you to work in areas including design, styling, promotion, marketing, manufacturing, visual merchandising, buying and selling
If you have previously studied an HNC, HND, Foundation Degree or started a degree elsewhere in a relevant subject you may gain direct entry to join this course at Stage 2 or 3.
Source: University of Sunderland
Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Department
Art & Design
Location
City Campus | Sunderland
Duration
3 Years
Study mode
Full-time
Subjects
• Fashion design
Start date
14 September 2026
Application deadline
14 January 2026
| Location | Fees |
|---|---|
| England | £9,535 per year |
| Scotland | £9,535 per year |
| Wales | £9,535 per year |
| Northern Ireland | £9,535 per year |
| EU | £17,500 per year |
| International | £17,500 per year |
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1 year ago
Highly facilitated and providence of knowledge is great.
1 year ago
Five stars: Excellent
1 year ago
I do like Sunderland for the most part, the people are mostly nice, it's diverse and there's a wide range of shops, but I do feel like there's not nearly enough stuff here compared to other cities. The campuses are very nice, especially the media centre.
1 year ago
The university has a store called StudyPlus where you can buy a bunch of essential and non-essential items using either your own money or money granted to you by the university. You can apply for various bursaries and I was granted the low-income bursary. This was paid through StudyPlus but you coul...
1 year ago
Oh boy. I've technically been at the university for three years but I'm only in my first year due to dropping out of my foundation year, then re-joining the next year. This is all due to severe mental health issues that the university have been aware of since the start but have done absolutely n...
1 year ago
I don't live in a university accommodation and was never shown the library so have not used this, but I will say that I've had a lot of experience with the well-being team and they're very hit or miss. The first two years, I received no help and they even admitted that they weren't helping me enough...
The NSS is an annual survey where final-year students are asked to rate different aspects of their course and university experience.
Here you can see ratings from University of Sunderland students who took the Fashion Design and Promotion course - or another course in the same subject area.
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Teaching on my course
90%
high
How often does your course challenge you to achieve your best work?
100%
high
How good are teaching staff at explaining things?
86%
low
How often do teaching staff make the subject engaging?
95%
high
How often is the course intellectually stimulating?
81%
med
Learning opportunities
90%
high
To what extent have you had the chance to bring together information and ideas from different topics?
95%
high
How well does your course introduce subjects and skills in a way that builds on what you have already learned?
90%
high
How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?
90%
high
To what extent have you had the chance to explore ideas and concepts in depth?
90%
med
To what extent does your course have the right balance of directed and independent study?
86%
med
Assessment and feedback
88%
med
How well have assessments allowed you to demonstrate what you have learned?
90%
med
How fair has the marking and assessment been on your course?
90%
med
How often does feedback help you to improve your work?
90%
high
How often have you received assessment feedback on time?
90%
med
How clear were the marking criteria used to assess your work?
81%
med
Academic support
88%
med
How easy was it to contact teaching staff when you needed to?
90%
med
How well have teaching staff supported your learning?
86%
low
Organisation and management
76%
med
How well were any changes to teaching on your course communicated?
76%
med
How well organised is your course?
76%
med
Learning resources
90%
high
How well have the IT resources and facilities supported your learning?
95%
high
How well have the library resources (e.g., books, online services and learning spaces) supported your learning?
89%
med
How easy is it to access subject specific resources (e.g., equipment, facilities, software) when you need them?
86%
med
Student voice
79%
med
How clear is it that students' feedback on the course is acted on?
71%
med
To what extent do you get the right opportunities to give feedback on your course?
81%
med
To what extent are students' opinions about the course valued by staff?
86%
med
How well does the students' union (association or guild) represent students' academic interests?
61%
low
Other NSS questions
During your studies, how free did you feel to express your ideas, opinions, and beliefs?
90%
med
How well communicated was information about your university/college's mental wellbeing support services?
74%
med
See who's studying at University of Sunderland. These students are taking Fashion Design and Promotion or another course from the same subject area.
| Most popular A-levels studied | ||||||
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| Subject | Grade | |||||
| Fine Art | A | |||||
| History | B | |||||
| Sociology | A | |||||
| Textiles | B | |||||
| Craft and Design | C | |||||
Facts and figures about University of Sunderland graduates who took Fashion Design and Promotion - or another course in the same subject area.
Graduate statistics
80%
In a job where degree was essential or beneficial
95%
In work, study or other activity
90%
Say it fits with future plans
75%
Are utilising studies
Top job areas
35%
Web and Multimedia Design Professionals
25%
Design occupations
20%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
Graduate statistics percentages are determined 15 months after a student graduates
Earnings from University of Sunderland graduates who took Fashion Design and Promotion - or another course in the same subject area.
Earnings
£19.2k
First year after graduation
£19.3k
Third year after graduation
£21.5k
Fifth year after graduation
Shown here are the median earnings of graduates at one, three and five years after they completed a course related to Fashion Design and Promotion.
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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