Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design

A one year master degree in fashion design, covering garment construction and pattern cutting, textile development, sustainable practice, digital design tools and a final collection.

Fashion design is judged on the final collection, and Birmingham’s lower living costs make a design year here considerably cheaper than the London equivalent.

Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design is taught at the Birmingham City University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the fashion and textile design master is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the fashion and textile design master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the fashion and textile design master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the fashion and textile design master as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the fashion and textile design master cannot support a family move.

The academic bar for Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design is a bachelor degree with 70 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the fashion and textile design master is recorded at GBP 18,970 a year. BCU charges no application fee, so applying for the fashion and textile design master costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the fashion and textile design master lists three September entry windows, in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Apply Study Visa manages the the fashion and textile design master application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.