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Develop the vision, leadership, business management and entrepreneurial skills needed to build a successful career in the global fashion industry.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University London (City of London)
Study mode
Full-time
Part-time
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Course code
LONT066
Start date
September 2025
January 2026
At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated by January 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.
With the fashion industry contributing greatly to the UK economy, a new generation of business professionals with a strong foundation in cross-cultural communications and international fashion business management is needed to respond to the needs of a sensitive consumer and a competitive global fashion market.
The following modules are mapped to the requirements of the CMI:
Your main study themes are:
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Although your studies are designed to be underpinned by solid academic theory, this course provides you with the opportunity to apply what you should have learnt to the real business context, both on and off campus2.
You will engage via a number of learning blocks in each module:
This course can also be offered on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Please contact registry.london@coventry.ac.uk for more information about studying this course part-time.
The number of full-time contact hours may vary from semester to semester, however, on average, it is likely to be around 10 contact hours per week. The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.
Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 10 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the university may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.
Assessment methods may include:
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
As reflected in the course title, this programme explores the world of international fashion management from a truly global perspective. Every aspect of your learning will be set within an international and intercultural context, whether you’re exploring ethics and sustainability, accounting standards, digital technologies, logistics and the supply chain, or the globalisation of fashion.
You’ll have the opportunity for domestic and overseas field trips2, and you could arrange to do your internship consultancy project2 outside of the UK. You may also have an opportunity to study with international students.
Coventry University Group aims to give you the global opportunities needed to become a truly global graduate, enhancing your employability on a global scale. Choose from language classes, studying or working abroad, international field trips, summer schools, leadership development or work experience2. Opportunities such as these have enabled previous students to obtain higher starting salaries and develop the global skills employers require and achieve better career progression.
International Fashion Business Management is the core to the success of flourishing fashion enterprises. Working together with you on exploring new, innovative and financially sustainable angles will make you the future leaders and drivers of market and product trends, product innovation and internationally successful businesses within the fashion and luxury goods industry.
Frederik Willems, MBA International Fashion Management Course Director, quoted in 2023
Typical offer for 2024/25 entry.
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£20,350 |
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EU | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£20,350 per year with EU Support Bursary** 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£22.550 per year without EU Support Bursary** |
Not available |
International | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£22.550 |
Not available |
The following are additional costs not included in the fees:
For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.
Our International Fashion Management MBA students have access to a wide range of facilities4 to help you apply your academic knowledge, creative and tangible skills in professional practice, in preparation for a professional career in the exciting international fashion industry.
Take a virtual tour of our campus to explore all of the facilities available to you.
Our fashion students have access to two fashion studios, which offer versatile spaces for lectures, group work, networking and utilising industry technologies. These contemporary spaces allow you to harness your creativity, experimentation and design skills.
There is a fully equipped Mac suite for digital and creative work. Here you could learn to create digital marketing and social media campaigns and engage with consumers in effective ways. Our Mac suite has the latest industry standard software such as Adobe Creative Cloud.
We have a combined photography and visual merchandising suite for practical workshops and styling sessions. Here you could learn to design global retailing and visual merchandising strategies and learn how luxury goods and services are branded.
On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
Fashion is a huge, highly competitive and growing industry, which means that strong business leaders are always in high demand. On this course, you will explore in-depth how the international fashion business operates and where its opportunities and challenges lie. Your global perspective should deliver a strong foundation in cross-cultural communication and international business management skills.
The course offers a springboard, upon successful completion, to a potential career culminating in management roles and should accelerate your promotion to rewarding leadership positions. Upon graduation, you should be able take your place among a new generation of fashion business leaders, being able to respond effectively to the demands of an unknowable future.
Previous graduates from this course have well-developed powers of analysis, strategic thinking and communication, effective decision making and are well-equipped to meet the leadership challenges of today and tomorrow. You could develop a successful career, upon graduation, in a range of disciplines within fashion, including garment production, the supply chain, buying, advertising, fashion retailing, retail management, finance, brand management, visual merchandising, digital communications, marketing, PR, publishing, journalism, IT, event production or consultancy. You might choose to be employed or to start your own business.
Past students have gone on to exciting careers for leading brands such as Ralph Lauren, Hermes, Net-a-Porter, Karlo Otto PR, Louis Vuitton, Fortnum & Mason, Uniqlo, Coach, Emporium department store to name a few, in Europe, Japan, China, and Thailand.