20 Textiles Master's Degree Programs

The Master's Program in Design for Sustainable Fashion Technology trains professionals to lead design and production processes aimed at fashion technology, applying soft textile surfaces, paying special attention to digital design, creating prototypes, interacting, and working with new materials.

The transition to a circular textile industry calls for students who have new ways of thinking about innovation and product development. This educational programme equips you with the tools to analyse future conditions and to transform contemporary products and processes for future needs in a global perspective. You acquire a profound textile technological understanding and get the chance to explore its potential in transdisciplinary contexts, with a specific emphasis on advancing textile innovation.

The International Master of Science in Textile Engineering is a 2-year master programme educating the next generation of textile engineers. The first semester you will study at Ghent University in Belgium, the second semester at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in Spain (for the academic year 2022-2023), the third semester you can choose between the University of Borås in Sweden or the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. During the fourth semester, you do a thesis at one of the partner universities. So you will study in Europe (and Japan). The professors teaching you come from all over the world.

This programme will give you an overview of the fundamentals of textiles and fashion to build upon your existing degree in topics like business administration, industrial economy, textile engineering, textile design, and fashion design. This will provide interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on the challenges related to working towards sustainable textiles and fashion. The main emphasis on sustainability is also an important area of research throughout the Swedish School of Textiles.

The Master in Innovative Textile Development trains you to become an expert in textile innovation and after graduation, you hold a Master of Science degree. The unique feature is a focus on innovation in textiles in the broadest sense: both technical textiles and textiles for clothing. With this, it provides a unique master's program in the Netherlands and Western Europe. It will give an excellent springboard to the international textile market.

Masters Program in Textile Design has recently highlighted the need for new professional figures whose skills and knowledge can connect and create a dialogue between the creative and strategic functions and the technical and production roles. The aim of the Master's Program in Textile Design - Innovation - Sustainability is to train professionals with such characteristics. The program offers cultural, technological, strategic, and design knowledge in the textile sector and provides collaborations with experts and companies of the world-renowned textile district of Como.

Our programme in Textile Design can take you further than you imagined. The Swedish School of Textiles, specialising in textile design, provides a forward-looking environment for rethinking and creating textiles within its expanded field, including Textile Craft, New Materiality, Innovation, and Digital Specialisms. It delves deep into the most relevant subjects and skills required for a career in the textile industry and related industries.

This programme provides you with relevant analytical skills and innovative tools for supply chain management to deal with complex issues caused by an unsustainable fashion and textile industry. You will gain advanced knowledge of textile value chain processes and specialise in the management of different parts of the supply chain. In this way, you will learn how to design and manage systems to work towards more sustainable fashion and textiles. The main emphasis on sustainability is also an important area of research throughout the Swedish School of Textiles.

Specialising in Textile Interaction Design involves exploring and developing textiles that interact with and adapt to their surroundings as well as to bodies, actions, humans, and other species. This specialisation delves into questions and issues related to textile interaction from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, ethical, technical, and cultural considerations.

The Master in Fabrics Innovation Design, is aimed at graduates and or professionals wishing to acquire a professional education focused on the close relationship between culture, creativity and innovation, aimed at research and development of the fabric, one of the most demanding fields. Creative exploration in the field of textiles and materials for fashion productions requires an articulated mix of knowledge and skills accompanied by a deep cultural background,

At the Swedish School of Textiles, fashion design is understood in its broadest sense as an activity that explores, expresses, and shapes individuals, communities, bodies, and human-cultural interactions. In the Master's programme specialising in Fashion Design, questions and issues related to expressions centered around the human body are explored and developed from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, technical, economic, and political considerations, all within a cultural context.

Graduates will acquire comprehensive knowledge of the whole area of textile and clothing technologies, mainly based on the understanding of basic principles and processes and on the development of corresponding intellectual skills. They will master both the technical part and the part related to the textile structure and properties.

Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Ciencia en Ingeniería Textil In the last 20 years, both academia and the textile industry have become more global than ever and creativity, user-centered product design and application, multicultural understanding , entrepreneurial behavior and multi-perspective thinking are vital to being an innovation leader.

The starting point of this programme is textile fibres: what do they consist of? What significance do they have, and what could be done with them? This educational programme links together and specialises in different elements that develop both theoretical and practical knowledge. It is a modern programme that includes recurring elements such as digitisation, recyclability, and a sustainability perspective.

The current textile field requires trained people, with the ability to lead companies and research structures related to the sector, who face the challenge of new skills, and who help promote the development of new products and be competitive in the renewed market. textile.