Higher Education News
Monday 31 Aug 2015
The UK is officially the best place in the world to study fashion
The UK is officially the best place in the world to study fashion, home to four of the top ten institutions in a newly-released list aimed at aspiring fashion students.
Industry website Business of Fashion has released its first ranking of the world's fashion schools, and the UK has six entries in the top 20.
The Business of Fashion’s first global fashion school ranking aims to provide an objective assessment of the top undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA) fashion programmes around the world, based on 60 different data points gathered from 24 participating institutions, surveys completed by 4,032 students and alumni, feedback from 88 HR professionals and global fashion influencers and our own BoF analysis.
Top universities for fashion, according to Business of Fashion:
1 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK
2 Bunka Fashion College, Japan
3 Kingston University, UK
4 Parsons The New School for Design, US
5 Fashion Institute of Technology, US
6 Polimoda, Italy
7 University of Westminster, UK
8 London College of Fashion, UK
9 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
10 Drexel University, US
11 Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel
12 Ryerson University School of Fashion, Canada
13 Stephens College, US
14 Nottingham Trent University, UK
15 Savannah College of Art and Design, US
16 Philadelphia University, US
17 University for the Creative Arts, UK
18 Istituto Marangoni, Italy
19 Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
20 Hogeschool Van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Source: Business of Fashion