FFM for Fashion Merchandising (Full-time)
FGF for Global Fashion Management (Full-time)
PFM for Fashion Merchandising (Part-time)
PGF for Global Fashion Management (Part-time)
1 year (Full-time)
2 years (Part-time)
30
3 for local students
6 for non-local students
HK$5,000 per credit for local and non-local students
Programme Director
Dr Chester To
MSc, PhD
Deputy Programme Directors
Dr Wing-sun Liu
MSc, PhD
Dr Rachel Yee
PhD
Programme Aims
The prime purpose of the programme is to provide students with opportunities to pursue advanced-level postgraduate education in Fashion and Textiles knowledge. The underlying premise is to nurture professionals to reach an advanced understanding and mastery of their chosen specialist areas of study, as a vital step towards realising their career and personal goals in Fashion and Textiles business.
Characteristics
The textile and fashion business has long been an area of international significance. Practitioners, typically in buying offices or trading houses, face increasingly complex challenges in terms of technological advancement, globalising management and the intractable diversity of worldwide market requirements. These challenges are associated with various well-partitioned educational disciplines, from global product design and merchandising, and the management of supply and quality, to marketing and branding. Through this MA programme, graduates can integrate these forms of disciplinary knowledge and advance their own expertise, analytical skills and visions to a more sophisticated postgraduate level. Graduates are knowledgeable in innovative practices for today's textile and fashion business, and can effectively manage globally dispersed interacting business tasks.
Programme Structure
Fashion Merchandising specialism
Students must complete 4 Core Subjects, 3 Specialised Subjects and 3 Elective Subjects for graduation. Each subject in the programme carries three credits.
Global Fashion Management specialism
Students must complete 4 Core Subjects, 3 Overseas Seminars and/or Site Visits and 3 Elective Subjects for graduation. Each subject in the programme carries three credits. They also have to bear the travelling cost for the intensive seminars and site visits. The cost of each overseas trip is around HK$20,000-25,000.
Core Areas of Study
Core Subjects
Specialised Subjects
Fashion Merchandising specialism
Global Fashion Management specialism
* Not applicable to Fashion Merchandising specialism
Recent Elective Subjects
Information on the subjects offered can be obtained at
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/itc/en/programmes/taught-postgraduate
Applicants who hold Bachelor's degree in other fields of study and have adequate and relevant work experience in the fashion or textile industry can be considered for admission.
For the Global Fashion Management specialism, applicants are expected to have a minimum of three years of relevant work experience.
If you are not a native speaker of English, and your Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification is awarded by institutions where the medium of instruction is not English, you are expected to fulfil the University’s minimum English language requirement for admission purpose. Please refer to the "Admission Requirements" section for details.
For further information on academic matters, please contact:
Dr Chester To (email: chester.to@polyu.edu.hk);
or Dr Wing-sun Liu (email: wing-sun.liu@polyu.edu.hk);
or Dr Rachel Yee (email: rachel.yee@polyu.edu.hk);
or Miss Sicily Ho (email: sicily.ho@polyu.edu.hk).
I made a good choice to attend the taught MA Fashion and Textiles (Fashion Merchandising) programme, which has provided me with a solid understanding of the fashion industry. This opportunity seems to be a wonderful fit with my personal interests and a good foundation for my career goals.
The subjects in this field of study have equipped me with a technical background and practical skills, and a strong interest in the fashion business. The courses that we can select range from quantitative analysis to project management, which help us to understand the real life situation when we start working in the industry.
We have accomplished more than 20 projects within the two semesters, and all of them turned out to be worth doing. In the learning process, we recognised how important it was to be responsible for multiple duties and to share a team-building spirit. Through communicating with group members and professors, I gained useful information not only about the project itself, but also about their valuable opinions of their experiences in the business world.
In short, this programme offers a good platform to learn about the business and management aspects of fashion, and I believe it can allow graduates to stay competitive in both international and local marketplaces. Chen Mo |  |
 | The MA in Fashion and Textiles (Global Fashion Management) provides me with a truly international learning experience covering the core subjects required in fashion management today.
From day one, we were involved in real-time projects working with other fashion professionals from the partner academic institutions, FIT in New York and IFM in Paris, and gaining unparalleled exposure to a diverse and truly global team of fashion professionals. The overseas intense study programmes included top-level lectures from renowned fashion industry leaders and academics sharing information and advice on the current issues and global challenges in Fashion Management. The programme gave me an opportunity to build on my own professional experiences and specialism, and to explore the end-to-end global management functions and changes within the fashion industry, while continually improving my own management, team building, research and learning skills. Veronica De Homersley |
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