MSc Fashion and Textiles Management

The Fashion and Textiles Management course offered by Heriot-Watt University is an innovative program that focuses on developing leadership and managerial talent in the context of the fashion and textiles businesses. This course provides a platform for students to connect sustainable and ethical considerations with aesthetic aspects of fashion and textiles, hence facilitating the transition from university graduate to successful fashion industry leader.Course Content: The students will study the global fashion business environment, branding and communications, marketing, and consumer behaviour, operations and quality management, sustainability and ethics, strategy and leadership, and will undertake an independent research project. The programme also includes a pathway for the academic formation of fashion marketing, advertising, public relations, journalism, by considering specific cultural norms and values. Key Modules: Global Fashion Business, Quality Management and Continuous Improvement, Managing Organisational Change, Supply Chain Management, Ethics and Sustainability, Branding, and Communications, Academic Research Methods, and Dissertation.Accreditations: Heriot-Watt University is recognised as a body of the UK by the UK Government under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.Future Careers: Graduates of the Fashion and Textiles Management postgraduate course can look forward to a broad spectrum of career opportunities in fashion and textiles business, design consultation, marketing, buying, product development, and other functions in both multinational corporations and SME sectors of the industry.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.