Course General Description

Become a fashion designer and brand entrepreneur by creating your brand identity, fashion collection and commercial business strategy – and learn how to promote it for the International market on our MA Fashion Design course, taught at our Rochester campus. Focusing on a collection you’ve already created, or starting from new – you’ll develop your brand identity and transform your product range to match. You’ll gain business insight, and explore ways to externalise your practice, all within a creative and supportive environment. You’ll have extensive resources to hand, including course-specific fashion studios, sewing and textile print workshops, as well as the campus-wide facilities, which include digital printing and photography studios.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.