Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Fashion Management (Top-up)

BA (Hons) Fashion Management Top-up gives holders of fashion, textiles or business diplomas a one-year route to the full honours award inside DMU’s long-established fashion school — final-level study in fashion business strategy, buying and merchandising management, brand and marketing management, and a major project, at the fashion faculty’s standard £16,800 fee with September entries across three cycles.

Leicester’s living garment industry gives this top-up something its price does not advertise: working factories and sourcing offices within reach of campus, technical workshops shared with the design courses, and teaching staff connected to UK retail head offices. Diploma entrants — frequently from Indian NIFT-adjacent institutions and similar — arrive with product skills the course then wraps in commercial and strategic management.

A practical asset unique to fashion top-up students: DMU’s fashion school runs its graduate showcase and industry events annually, and one-year entrants exhibit and network alongside three-year finalists on equal footing — compressed access to the school’s employer-facing calendar that few other top-ups can offer. The September-cycle entries recorded in the export align the single year exactly with that showcase rhythm.

The counselling frame: for a fashion-diploma holder, this single year converts a technical credential into a British honours degree that merchandising, buying and sourcing employers recognise, and it articulates directly into DMU’s own fashion management master’s for those extending. As a completed bachelor’s the award is Graduate Route qualifying — 18 months of open permission under the rules current applicants will face — while taught study continues to exclude dependants, and the strongest early salaries sit in sourcing roles serving UK retail from South Asian hubs.