Build networks and relationships in the fashion and textiles industry

You will engage with industry throughout your studies, starting from your first semester, including work on specific industry projects.

You can consult with fashion businesses extensively throughout your core and elective subjects.  A major project elective provides a pathway to further academic study, with opportunities for research with an industry partner.

Lecturers and academics all have strong industry relationships and experience, and the School of Fashion and Textiles enjoys links to local and global fashion industry and government organisations.

Build on your entrepreneurial aspirations

This master’s degree offers a flexible structure with core subject and elective choices within specialist areas of the fashion system. You can customise your subject selection to build on your existing knowledge or entrepreneurial aspirations.

Subjects focus on entrepreneurial thinking, sustainable fashion, ethical supply chains, fashion analytics, and the business strategies required to build a global fashion brand.

You will study in state-of-the-art facilities at RMIT’s Brunswick campus, and you will be able to choose your electives from a University-wide subject selection.

How you will study

Subjects include a variety of teaching approaches, such as seminars, lectures and tutorials, and use methods including collaborative group work, self-directed learning, peer review, case studies, and seminars and workshops.

Assessment involves learning by doing, and will include a range of activities such as reports, e-commerce tools, written reflection, research projects, presentations, and peer or industry review.

Full-time students will attend approximately 12 hours of classes per week, combined with intensive additional self-directed study and research per week. Part-time students can attend either day or evening classes, and will need to study approximately 6 hours per week.

You will be engaged with industry throughout your studies, including small industry projects, and subjects that allow you to begin developing and launching your own business venture.

You can also undertake a major project elective which provides a pathway for further academic study, and the opportunity for research with an industry partner.

The Master of Fashion (Entrepreneurship) has professional industry links with a wide range of organisations and associations, including the peak industry body the Australian Fashion Council (AFC).

The School of Fashion and Textiles has many close links with industry. This degree is taught by academics with strong industry relationships and current professional experience in the fashion industry. In addition, we collaborate with industry and community partners in a range of activities, including partnered projects, placements, virtual studios and case studies to ensure you are immersed in current industry professional practices, techniques and strategies.   

This degree has regular consultations with the School’s Industry Advisory Group which consists of high profile industry representatives. Part of these consultations is to ensure that the course’s links with industry standards and practice remain current and valid.

You have the opportunity to select two elective subjects (Global Fashion Supply Chain and Global Entrepreneurship) that are delivered offshore as global intensive subjects, designed to help understand how fashion enterprises operate in different cultures and economies.

The knowledge and skills you will acquire throughout this degree and how they can be applied in your career are described in the learning outcomes.

If you hold fashion and/or textiles undergraduate qualifications, your core foundation semester includes two core subjects, plus two option subjects.

If you are new to the discipline of fashion and textiles, your core foundation semester includes four core subjects.

In semesters two and three, the combination of two core subjects and two option/elective subjects scaffold your study plan to the final semester core subject, wherein you create a fashion venture.

In your final semester, you'll have three elective choices. Option/elective subjects can be chosen from the Master of Fashion (Entrepreneurship) program plan, or from university-wide electives based on consultation with the program manager.