Master of Science - Fashion Management with Marketing

The MSc Fashion Management with Marketing sits in DMU’s long-established fashion school — Leicester has been a textiles city for two centuries and the university’s fashion provision grew out of that industry base. The science-route master’s blends fashion business operations, buying and merchandising, supply chain and sourcing, fashion marketing and branding, and retail analytics, with an emphasis on the numerical side of range planning that the MA route treats more strategically.

Students work on trend-to-range projects that move a concept through sourcing costings, margin calculations, assortment plans and a marketing launch, using industry-standard planning spreadsheets and PLM-style workflows. Guest input from brands and Leicester’s garment-manufacturing cluster grounds the supply chain teaching, and the final project can be a company-linked study. September and January entries both run per the source data.

Leicester’s garment district context gives this MSc something London fashion schools cannot: working factories within walking distance of campus, several of which host sourcing and quality-control visits during the year. The fee, £16,800, undercuts comparable London fashion business degrees by several thousand pounds before the capital’s higher living costs are even counted, a point worth making explicitly to budget-sensitive families.

Applicants should hear the honest version of the fashion job market: entry roles are competitive, London-centric and start around £22,000–£25,000, and sponsorship into fashion retail is rare, so the Graduate Route window does the heavy lifting. That window is 18 months for applications from 1 January 2027 (two years only for those applying before the change), this being a taught master’s; dependants are not permitted. The strongest outcomes in recent years combine this degree with sourcing-side roles serving UK retailers from South Asian supply hubs.