Graduate Certificate - Fashion Management

The Fashion Management graduate certificate is a one-year postgraduate program on the business of apparel — buying, planning, merchandising and brand management.

Coursework covers fashion buying and assortment planning, retail mathematics and merchandise financial planning, trend forecasting and product development, global sourcing and apparel supply chains, fashion marketing and brand strategy, visual merchandising, e-commerce and omnichannel retail, sustainability and ethical sourcing, and retail operations, with a placement in the industry.

Merchandise financial planning is the content that decides careers, and it surprises applicants who expect a creative program. Buying is quantitative work — open-to-buy, markdown planning, sell-through and margin — and candidates comfortable with those numbers progress considerably faster than those drawn only to the aesthetic side.

The work placement is a graded part of the program, so you finish with documented Canadian experience and a referee rather than only a transcript.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The Lakeshore campus sits on the shore of Lake Ontario in south Etobicoke, next to Colonel Samuel Smith Park, and is home to Humber’s business degrees, media and creative arts, and social and community services programs. Heritage buildings, a residence opened in 2024 and a free shuttle to the North campus make it the most distinctive of Humber’s sites.

Its field maps to CIP 19.0906 (Fashion merchandising). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Humber publishes a PGWP-eligible program list with CIP codes; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.