MA, PgDip, PgCert Fashion Business (Online)

The Fashion Business online course is designed to equip you as a leader and changemaker in today’s fast-moving world. By combining solid business foundations, critical thinking and decision-making skills through a creative lens, you’ll be prepared to transform the global fashion industry with purpose, innovation, and lasting impact.

Delivered by the renowned Fashion Business School at London College of Fashion, you’ll explore the dynamic intersections of business, the environment, and society through topics such as Finance, Strategy and Leadership, Risk Management and Governance, and Sustainable Supply Chain Management. You’ll be empowered to champion sustainability, drive ethical practices, and promote diversity and inclusion in your current and future roles. Innovative units, assessments and a final Capstone Project give you hands-on experience, enabling you to identify opportunities, tackle challenges, and lead transformative initiatives.

The flexible course structure combines specialist and elective units shared with its parallel online course, MA Fashion Marketing. This enables you to tailor your learning to your goals and areas of interest, expand your professional network, and engage with diverse perspectives worldwide.

Start dates

• January
• May
• September

Mode of study

MA Fashion Business is delivered fully online, part-time.

Along with having 3 entry points in the year, our online learning model allows you to shape your learning in line with your aspirations. At the start of your course, all students will take the mandatory unit, Fashion Means Business. Then, you’ll choose specialist and shared units, with the Fashion Business course, from set teaching blocks in the year.

Each unit is delivered over 14 weeks with a short break at the end of each unit. You can control your pace to graduation by taking breaks between units or opting for a PgCert or PgDip award.

PgCert (60 credits | 2 units)

Studying the PgCert will take a minimum of 8 months and a maximum of 2 years 8 months.

PgDip (120 credits | 4 units)

Studying the PgDip will take a minimum of 1 year 4 months and a maximum of 3 years 4 months.

MA (180 credits | 6 units)

Studying the MA will take a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 4 years.

Careers and industry

Your employability is at the heart of everything we do. Our course design principles are employability-driven and thoughtfully tailored so you can progress and stand out in a competitive fashion industry. Graduates from the Fashion Business School have gone on to work in executive and strategic roles within major fashion brands, including LVMH, Save Your Wardrobe, Richemont Group, McKinsey, Kantar, Celine and many more.

Units

Fashion Means Business (30 credit mandatory unit)

Strategy and Leadership (30 credits)

Finance, Risk Management and Governance (30 credits)

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (30 credits)

Product Design and Management (30 credits)

Retail Futures (30 credits)

Fashion Trends and Strategic Innovation (30 credits)

Capstone Project (30 credit mandatory unit for MA students)