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Fashion BA (Hons)

Develop the creative thinking and practical skills needed to question, redefine and shape the future of fashion.

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Key course information

Course Duration

3 or 4 Year options

Course Options

Diploma Year

Intergrated Foundation Year

Typical Offer

104-120 UCAS Tariff Points

How to Apply

Request a prospectus

Annual Fees

Home (full-time) £10,050

Overseas (full-time) £28,500

UCAS code

W233 (3 Year), W230 (4 Year)

Institution code: N39

Course Start

September 2027

Two creative specialists. One future-defining partnership.

Students starting an undergraduate degree at Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027 will graduate with a degree jointly awarded by Norwich and the Royal College of Art. Find out more about the partnership.

The future-orientated course develops designers who think critically and work confidently across contemporary fashion contexts. You will explore ideas through research, experimentation and making, strengthening both your conceptual approach and technical capability. The course foregrounds ethical practice and inclusive design, fostering a studio culture that values collaboration, independence and clarity of voice.

Our course will encourage you to explore concept development, pattern cutting, 3D digital rendering, tailoring and professional garment construction supported by technical skills and couture levels of craftsmanship. Guest lectures, seminars and workshops with acclaimed practitioners, stylists and academics will give you insight into how the industry works.

You will have access to studio space, specialist fashion design resources and well-equipped workshops run by on-site technical staff. Our Fashion studios and workshops are the right setting to develop your ideas and perfect essential skills such as drawing, digital design and professional presentation. We will help you to develop a professional portfolio to showcase your design identity and profile the quality of your manufactured garments to employers.

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Our partnership with the Royal College of Art

From September 2027, we’re offering our students at Norwich the world’s only current opportunity to study for an undergraduate degree that’s jointly awarded by Norwich University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art (RCA).

For 12 consecutive years, the RCA has been ranked as the world’s number one art and design university, by the respected QS ranking. A transformative and equitable space for free-thinking and collaboration, it’s the world’s largest community of postgraduate-only art and design students.

Every year RCA alumni are recognised as leaders in their disciplines, shaping our culture and world.

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Accreditation and memberships

Our course benefits from close industry links and is a member of the British Fashion Colleges Council and the Graduate Fashion Foundation.

Founded in 1993 to create an interface between education and industry, the BFC Colleges Council membership programme represents the leading fashion departments in universities throughout the UK and connects the extensive network of experienced course leaders with the fashion and wider creative industries together in support of arts and fashion education.

Our course is affiliated with Graduate Fashion Foundation and showcases graduating students annually at Graduate Fashion Week, a leading platform for emerging fashion talent. Graduate Fashion Week connects students with designers, employers and industry professionals, offering national visibility and opportunities for progression into professional practice.

Why study with us

Study a fast-paced and varied curriculum of fundamental fashion in which the individual student voice is developed through personal choice of research topics, client profiles and creative outcomes.

Build an advanced technical skill base in pattern cutting, fabric development and manufacturing to create 3D garments.

Explore professional ways of communicating ideas and essential digital skills and build a strong fashion industry awareness.

Study core topics including contemporary narratives on craft practices and traditional skills, creative cut and digital fashion, as well as international relations, social, cultural and gender identities.

Undertake projects that push you to take creative risks with both ideation and execution. You’ll also gain practical experience through industry-focused projects with brands like John Lewis, Superdry and Ralph Lauren.

Live projects, competitions and industry placements help you engage in and build external networks and opportunities, preparing you to be industry-ready beyond graduation.

Course Details

Integrated Foundation Year (optional)

Integrated Foundation Year

Our Integrated Foundation Year is designed to equip students with the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence to thrive in their chosen degree subject. The course provides a comprehensive introduction to various disciplines, blending critical thinking and creative problem-solving with practical hands-on experience. This year serves as a bridge to undergraduate studies, allowing students to explore their interests within a supportive and inspiring environment, while familiarising themselves with the campus, workshops, and tutors.

Find out more about our Integrated Foundation Year.

Core Units

Creative Learning (40 credits)

This first unit establishes the foundations of your design practice through experimentation, exploration and critical enquiry. You will question what fashion is, what it does and where you sit within it, unpacking craft, culture, materiality and identity as part of contemporary practice. Through studio-led projects, you will explore historical and current approaches, examining how social, cultural, sustainable and ethical contexts inform creative work. Research becomes an active tool for thinking and making. You will develop core technical skills in fibres and fabrics, life drawing, digital design software, flat pattern cutting, 3D form development and garment construction. Alongside this, you will begin to define your creative position, building confidence in both process and execution. The unit also supports your transition into independent study, establishing the curiosity and discipline required for degree-level practice.

40 credits

Explore and Experiment (80 credits)

This unit pushes you to test, stretch and redefine your creative practice. Through sustained experimentation with materials, processes and form, you will develop an iterative way of working that values risk, reflection and refinement. You will expand your research process into deeper textile and fabric exploration, advancing from concept to 3D prototypes. Technical development continues through innovative pattern cutting, draping, garment manufacture and digital practice, including Clo3D. Craft and technology are positioned as equal tools for thinking and making. You will explore how ideas translate across 2D and 3D outcomes, considering responsible and sustainable approaches at every stage. Collaboration is central to the unit, strengthening teamwork, presentation and project management skills. Working alongside final-year students, you will contribute to live studio environments, gaining insight into different roles and pathways while shaping your own direction within contemporary fashion practice.

80 credits

Wayfinding Week

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

Make it Manifest(o)

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange Week

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

Global Contexts (80 credits)

This unit situates your practice within a wider global landscape. You will examine how fashion is constructed, produced and understood across different cultures, economies and social contexts, developing a more critical and informed approach to making. Through ambitious studio and externally focused projects, you will test your design identity beyond the classroom. Advanced experimentation in materials and form strengthens your skills in construction, finishing, innovative pattern cutting, draping and digital development, including Clo3D. You will also explore non-traditional approaches to research and making, broadening your creative references and challenging established systems. Iterative prototyping remains central, with ethical and sustainable decision-making embedded throughout. Alongside creative development, you will gain insight into different fashion sectors and career trajectories. Collaboration, presentation and project planning become more rigorous, preparing you to operate with increasing independence and clarity.

Directions (40 credits)

This unit positions your practice within collaborative contexts, working across disciplines and with external partners on live briefs and shared challenges. You will develop solutions through collective research, experimentation and problem-solving, learning to navigate different perspectives, roles and working methods. The unit strengthens your ability to communicate ideas clearly, respond to client needs and take creative risks within team environments. Through cooperative practice, you expand both your creative thinking and your understanding of how fashion operates beyond individual authorship.

Core Projects

Diploma Year (optional)

Level 5 Diploma (120 credits)

Students have the opportunity to spend a year after the second of their degree (or the third year if studying for a degree with an Integrated Foundation Year) enhancing their employability options through a Level 5 Diploma. They can choose from courses designed to provide:

opportunities to gain industry insight, developing employability skills through a series of supported experiences, expanding professional networks and building confidence in the workplace, or

an introduction to creative computing, building an understanding of how coding skills can be used to advance and complement creative practice.

Find out more about our Level 5 Diplomas.

Final Year

Research and Preparation (40 credits)

This unit sets the intellectual and creative foundation for your final year. You will define your design philosophy, refine your research direction and establish the critical framework that underpins your final major project. Through advanced research, concept development and focused making, you will clarify your creative position and test ideas with rigour. Technical refreshers in pattern cutting, craftsmanship, digital processes and workshop practice support increasingly ambitious outcomes. Alongside studio development, you will produce a research report that articulates your methodology, influences and future direction. This unit is about focus, depth and intention. It sharpens your thinking and prepares you to move forward with authority.

Resolution and Career Development (80 credits)

This unit is the culmination of your degree and the full realisation of your creative ambition. You will conceive and produce a self-directed major project that embodies your design philosophy, technical capability and evolving identity as a designer. Working with autonomy and precision, you will push experimentation, material exploration and construction to a resolved and distinctive body of work. Live and professionally aligned projects provide opportunities to test your ideas in real contexts and strengthen your strategic awareness. The unit culminates in a public showcase of your collection or portfolio, positioning your work within the wider creative landscape. This is your launch point a moment to present your voice with clarity, confidence and momentum as you step into your next chapter.

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Learning and teaching

This course is taught through a mixture of learning and teaching methods including:

Learning and Teaching at Norwich

Group briefings

Academic tutorials

Group tutorials

Workshops

Critiques (crits)

Seminars

Lectures

Assessment

Assessment for this course is entirely coursework-based, meaning there are no exams. Your progress will be evaluated through the projects and assignments you complete for each unit. Throughout the year, you’ll receive ongoing feedback to help you refine your work and develop your skills. To support your learning and ensure you achieve the course outcomes, we use a variety of assessment methods, including:

Finished pieces of work

Presentations

Written work

Your research

A reflective journal

Find out more about Assessment at Norwich

Some of the people you’ll be working with

Meet all staff

River Chadprajong-Smith

Course Leader, Fashion

Eleanor Sorrell

Lecturer

Nina Dobson

Roger Smith

Our Facilities

Look around our city-centre campus, and you will find studios, media labs, and creative spaces in 13 buildings that sit among the cafés, bars, independent galleries and shops of Norwich’s cultural quarter.

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Constructed Textiles Workshop

In the Constructed Textiles Workshop you’ll make use of digital sewing, weaving, embroidery and knitting machines with professional software.

Design Studio

The Design Studio & Student IT Helpdesk are situated on the first floor of the Guntons building. The area specialises in design for print, publication, graphics, and illustration.

Fashion Studios

The Fashion Studios with integrated Workshops are fully fitted with industrial machinery and equipment.

Laser Cutting

The Cutting Room (GU106) has two large-bed laser cutters — for card, board, and acrylic materials — with associated digital design hardware and software. The machines are controlled by Ethos software that uses files from Adobe Illustrator.

Media Resource Centre

As in a traditional library, students are able to loan out a range of specialist Production, Photographic, and Audio Visual equipment, and take part in workshops and demos to learn tips and tricks.

Munnings Drawing Studio

Named after Sir Alfred Munnings, it features space for Life Drawing Classes used by students — on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses — from fine art, fashion, textile design, illustration, games, and animation.

Textile Print & Dye Workshop

Long print tables with repeat furniture for screen printing fabric lengths, a large selection of screen printing frames, heat presses, Mimaki Tx300-P digital fabric printer, Epson SC-F6200 sublimation printer, dye kitchen with steaming and washing facilities are included in the resources available here.

Here to help you succeed

The UK’s creative sector is thriving, contributing £111.7 billion annually to the economy and offering over 2 million jobs.

Employability and career development are integral to every unit of our courses, ensuring students are well-prepared for the industry. Our students go on to secure exciting roles, launch successful businesses, and make a lasting impact in many sectors worldwide.

From day one, you’ll also get specialist career advice from our Business and Employability Team to help support you as you plan your career.

Typical career paths

By the end of your final year, you will have developed a clear strategy for your next step. You graduate with a resolved body of work, a strong portfolio and the confidence to position yourself within an evolving creative landscape.

Our students gain industry recognition through success in competitions with British Fashion Council, Graduate Fashion Week, Anne Tyrrell Student Design Award, Golden Shears and the international Arts of Fashion awards.

Graduates have secured diverse fashion, design and manufacturing-related roles at H&M, Ted Baker, Victoria Beckham, Marks & Spencer, Outfit Arcadia Group, Blakely and Yarmouth Oilskins. Many graduates progress to MA study in areas such as fashion design, material innovation, digital fashion, sustainability or interdisciplinary creative practice. Others build hybrid careers that combine making, research and strategy.

Fashion Designer

Creative Pattern Cutter

Textile Designer

3D Digital Fashion Designer

Creative Technologist

Circular Design Specialist

Trend Forecaster

Art Director

Over the next five years, fashion will continue to expand into digital spaces, circular systems and advanced material development. This course develops Designers who can think critically, experiment boldly and move fluidly between physical and digital making will shape what comes next.

“92% of our graduates are in employment or further education within six months of graduating”

Graduate Outcomes 2021

Entry requirements

Norwich University of the Arts welcomes applicants of all ages from all backgrounds.

If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry as we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications as well as combinations of different qualifications.

Please do contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.

A/AS Levels (GCE)

GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BCC (104 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications.

BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction, Merit, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction*, Distinction* in an art, design or media related subject

T Levels

A T Level in any subject with overall grade A* to C (Pass)

UAL Extended Diploma

UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Access to Higher Education Diploma (Art and Design)

International Baccalaureate Diploma

A minimum of 26 points

Integrated foundation year (optional)

GCE A/AS Levels 2 A-level qualifications at grades CC (64 UCAS Tariff points) or above.

Merit, Merit, Pass in an art, design or media related subject

Distinction*, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

Pass (D or E on the core)

International

We accept qualifications from all over the world

To find our country-specific entry requirements, please visit our international entry requirements page.

English Language qualifications

Most international students are required to hold an English language qualification. Applicants must have an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and no less than 5.5 in each component. We do accept alternative English Language qualifications. Learn more about our English entry requirements.

You can email us on international@norwichuni.ac.uk if you’d like to discuss your application individually.

Portfolio Advice and Guidance

Portfolios should show examples of your work — both finished and work in progress — that demonstrate your interests and skills. Your portfolio should be made up of work that reflects your creativity, personal interests and influences, as well as demonstrating your technical skills and ability. It doesn’t have to be perfect as we can assess your potential from your work in progress.

Your portfolio should be relevant to this course, but you can include a wide range of work that shows your creativity, technical competence and understanding of storytelling.

Get more advice on presentation formats, layouts and when to submit your portfolio in the application process.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees for the 2027/28 academic year

Undergraduate course (three year): £10,050 per year

Integrated Foundation Year (optional): £10,050 per year

Level 5 Diploma Year (optional): £10,050 year

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you’re classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

Tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with inflation, subject to government regulations. The inflation rate used is expected to be the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage payments (RPIX), as forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. Tuition fees are reviewed annually by the University, and we would confirm any change to you in advance of each academic year.

Find our more about fees and funding

Funding your study

Depending on your circumstances, you may qualify for a bursary, scholarship or loan to help fund your study and enhance your learning experience.

Undergraduate course (three year): £28,500

Integrated Foundation Year (optional): £28,500

Level 5 Diploma year (optional): £19,380

For Overseas students starting in 2027 inflation will be applied to your fees in later years. We will confirm this in advance to you of each academic year, and we will limit the increase to no more than the Office for Students’ recommended inflationary measure.

If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.

Please take a look at our International students page for information about fees, scholarships for international students, visas and much more.

Additional costs

Your course fees cover the cost of studies, and include loads of benefits, such as the use of our library, support from our expert employability team, access to workshops and free use of the IT equipment across our campuses. There are also other costs which you may need to consider.

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How to apply

All applications for undergraduate courses will need to be made via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

You’ll need our university UCAS code (N39) as well as your course code which you’ll find on your course page.

When you register with UCAS you will need include your previous and current qualifications information, personal statement, and reference.

Once we receive your application form through UCAS, we will email confirmation that we have received it and will give you access and instructions for logging into the applicant portal. Our decision will be communicated via UCAS.

Applying for an undergraduate degree

Full-time Undergraduate International applicants can either apply via UCAS or directly by completing the online application form below or emailing the downloadable form to ioadmissions@norwichuni.ac.uk

Online Application Form

International Undergraduate Application Form – (216kb)

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Apply via UCAS

For further support for international applicants applying for an undergraduate degree view our international pages.

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