Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Fashion Design B.A.
Berlin, Germany
BA
DURATION
7 semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 785 / per month *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 785 EUR/month + 70 EUR/month (non-EU) | registration fee: 695 EUR
Key Summary
About: The Fashion Design (B.A.) program at Hochschule Fresenius combines creative craft and digital design to develop progressive collections. You'll study technologies, patternmaking, textiles, illustration, and digital workflows, and learn to reflect social issues in your design language. The program prepares you for roles in apparel design, collection development, fashion communication, and media production.
Career Outcomes: Graduates gain varied career prospects in design houses, brands, labels, trend agencies, publishers, styling for film and photo, and in-house retail roles. Jobs include fashion designer, trend forecaster, stylist, fashion illustrator, product developer, and brand founder. Employers listed include Acne Studios, H&M, and Vogue.
The study program in Fashion Design (B.A.) incorporates the market’s latest technological developments to provide you with the creative and handicraft expertise as well as digital know-how and conceptual skills required to design progressive collections. Fashion is a catalyst for change, a fact reflected in both design concepts and everyday life. Fashion creates connections, regardless of our origins, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and it reflects issues within society. You will learn to identify and reflect on current impulses and express them in your own design language. A degree in Fashion Design (B.A.) offers wide-ranging career prospects, including creative, high-responsibility roles in film and photographic production and with fashion brands, trend and style agencies, publishers, design agencies, and labels.
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Semesters 1 - 3
- Onboarding in Fashion Studies
- Creative Construction Systems I + Ii
- Visual Communication I + Ii
- Technology & Realization I + Ii
- Fashion Design I Iii
- Design Principles in Fashion Design
- Cultural History of Design I Iii
- Basics of Sustainability
- Material Competence In Fashion I + Ii
- Digital Product Development
Semesters 3,4 & 6
- Interdisciplinary Workshops
Semester 4
- Technology & Realization Ii
- Product Management
- Fashion Theory I
- Fashion Design IV
Semester 5
- Internship
Semester 6
- Start-up
- Material Lab
- Fashion Theory Ii
- Fashion Design V
Semester 7
- Scientific Methodology
- Bachelor‘s Degree
Graduates of the study program in Fashion Design (B.A) have career prospects that are just as varied as the program is creative. After studying at the AMD, you will have a whole host of qualifications and, of course, all the skills required to create your own fashion designs – either with an established company or by setting up your own brand. But this is just one of your potential career paths after studying Fashion Design (B.A.). AMD graduates work for many prestigious fashion companies and labels, including Acne Studios, Marco Polo, McQ Alexander McQueen, Hugo Boss, Balmain, Dries van Noten, Isabel Marant, R13, Mulberry, JW Anderson, Iris van Herpen, Adidas, Jil Sander, Closed, Esprit, H&M, lala Berlin, About You, Cinque, Mytheresa, H&M, Diesel, Elle, and Vogue.
If you choose to work in fashion design, you will be responsible for the design, development, and material selection. If you enjoy media production, you could become a stylist for film and photo productions. Trend scouts seek out and analyze color developments, new materials, and contouring. Magazines, publishers, agencies, and labels need fashion design professionals to display fashion illustrations and create graphic representations of collections and visuals.