Course General Description

BA (Hons) Fashion Design course has built an international reputation for producing professional, highly talented and skilled design graduates with advanced technical and business knowledge to propel them into the industry. Our students have achieved exceptional success at Graduate Fashion Week, scooping up prizes including the FatFace design competition, the overall Gold prize for best collection and SmartFocus People's Choice Award. With access to the latest technology, including a Gerber suite for computerised pattern development, you'll master all the skills needed to make it in the industry, following in the footsteps of many successful fashion designers. You’ll be nurtured by professional design staff with a huge amount of varied industry experience, within a creative and supportive environment that will help you develop your individual design identity.

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.