Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Buying with Merchandising (Honours)

BA (Hons) Fashion Buying with Merchandising joins product selection to the quantitative discipline that funds it: range planning alongside stock and sales forecasting, open-to-buy and intake planning, allocation and replenishment, markdown strategy and the reporting cycles that run a retail season, at the distinctive £15,750 fee recorded in the source for this route.

The merchandising strand is taught as applied commercial mathematics — students build seasonal plans in spreadsheets, model the consequences of over-buying, and analyse sell-through data to defend trading decisions — while the buying strand supplies product literacy and supplier understanding, producing graduates fluent on both sides of the head-office conversation.

The £15,750 fee recorded for this route is the lowest in DMU’s fashion family and sits below the faculty standard, a saving of over £3,000 across three years that agents should surface when comparing options for budget-conscious families. Applicants should nonetheless self-assess honestly on numeracy before committing, because merchandising assessment centres test mental arithmetic and spreadsheet reasoning under time pressure. September entries run across the three recorded cycles, and the course pairs naturally with the placement variant listed separately in this sheet.

Assessment mirrors head-office deliverables: trading reports, range plans with financial architecture, and presentations defended against commercial challenge, so students leave holding the exact artefacts retail assessment centres set as tasks.

Merchandising hires steadily and pays slightly above the buying track at entry, roughly £22,000–£26,000, with progression into planning and trading management; the analytical base also transfers into e-commerce and supply-chain roles. The completed honours degree qualifies for the Graduate Route at the 18-month post-January-2027 term, with dependants excluded on taught study.