Raffles Design Institute Riyadh
Advanced Diploma in International Fashion Business (Top Up)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

DEGREE TYPE

Advanced Diploma

DURATION

1 year

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

Key Summary

About: This top-up Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Fashion Business (Coventry University) runs at Raffles. Intakes: January, April, July, October; duration 1 Year (Full-time). You'll study trend analysis, buying, merchandising, marketing, branding, retail and product development; collaborate with design students and complete Future Fashion Innovators and Final Major Project. Keywords: international fashion, trend forecasting, brand strategy, retail management, visual merchandising.

Career Outcomes: You'll refine skills in marketing, merchandising, PR and creative direction. Career opportunities include Brand Manager, Product Development Manager, Fashion Buyer, Merchandiser, Fashion Editor, Stylist, Image Consultant, Costume Coordinator, Fashion Forecaster and roles in e-commerce, retail management, brand strategy or launching your own fashion business and e-commerce leadership roles.

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS) IN INTERNATIONAL FASHION BUSINESS (TOP UP)

Coventry University, UK

Intakes: January, April, July, and October

Duration: 1 Year (Full-time)

COURSE OVERVIEW

The BA (Hons) International Fashion Business course is designed to offer an opportunity to study international fashion business in a creative environment to students with a range of ambitions and interests in fashion who do not, however, aspire to be fashion designers.

Students will reflect on global and regional trends in their work and will develop a style that reflects the Asian market, but also allows true global employability.

This course will offer students an understanding of the different roles in the fashion industry from trend analysis and prediction, through to the design, manufacture and the retail of products, and the role of marketing to the global consumer. The experience of working in partnership with Fashion design students will give students a real insight into the role of the fashion designer in the industry, and will, therefore, offer the students an advantage on graduation.

Students will be able to tap into the broad range of available career options (including buying, merchandising, marketing, branding, and launching their own businesses and will be encouraged to exhibit their own, diverse interests in the work they produce.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

You’ll learn and refine skills in this course that you’ll be able to apply to marketing, merchandising, publishing, PR and creative direction. In short, you’ll be the one identifying and creating the demand for products created by fashion designers.

Areas of employment include: