• Fashion Management MPS

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  • Fashion Management (MPS) Students Newly Entering Fall 2025: The program will be offered entirely in person; no online option will be offered.

  • MPS Fashion Management is a rigorous one-year graduate program for those who want to lead business and management innovation and transformation in fashion and in other design and creative industries. 

    The program is grounded in social and climate justice and draws on systems thinking, design-based frameworks, research, and real-world skills to guide students to develop critical business thinking and practice capacities. This program can be completed on campus or fully online.

    The MPS curriculum focuses on fostering creative thinking and design innovation in the context of business and management. It integrates theoretical knowledge and practical applications, emphasizing the importance of research in informing strategic decision making. Students engage with academic theories relevant to fashion management and apply them to real-world scenarios. This approach develops students’ critical thinking and analytical skills, ensuring that they are equipped to address complex challenges in the fashion industry after graduating.

    Program Highlights

    • Future of Fashion Business

      Explore the evolving fashion industry and its intersections with technology, sustainability, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Gain insights into AI-driven design, circular economy strategies, and ethical supply chains 

    • Industry Access in NYC

      Learn alongside leading New York City–based industry professionals and experts who teach, guest-lecture, and open their studios and workshops to you. Draw on the extensive networks that have kept Parsons at the global forefront of fashion education. 

    • Creativity + Commerce

      Learn to reinvent fashion industry systems, create disruptive digital strategies for social media and e-commerce, and incorporate groundbreaking sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion practices into current paradigms.

    • Business Innovation

      Design new ways to streamline processes, explore methods for rapid innovation in retail, and develop strategies to influence consumer behavior. 

    • Professional Relevance

      Create a unique professional portfolio of new fashion business models and ventures or gain immediately applicable skills in the art and science of fashion on the path to becoming tomorrow’s fashion leaders.

    • Applicant Profile

      We welcome visionaries with fashion industry experience or transformative ideas and a commitment to shaping sustainable, socially responsible business models for fashion's future.

    • Degree Master of Professional Studies (MPS)
    • Format Full-time, on campus
    • Credits 30
    • Duration 1 year

  • Curriculum

    The Fashion Management curriculum begins with a one-week orientation seminar and consists of fall and spring semesters and a summer term. The program features cohort-style learning and consists of several 15-week courses that meet weekly on campus. You can also choose to complete the program entirely online.

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  • Career Paths

    Graduates are prepared to develop new paradigms in the fashion world and devise groundbreaking, disruptive, compelling concepts enabling them to succeed in fashion-related careers including production and manufacturing, supply chain management, merchandising and buying, digital marketing and social media management, and sustainability management.

  • Parsons faculty represent a broad range of expertise and are acknowledged as leading practitioners and scholars in their fields.

  • Parsons is known for its legacy of leading by design, with many CFDA members being School of Fashion alumni. This new program is exactly what our industry needs today. As fashion systems transform, we need leaders with sophisticated creative acumen within brand, retail, and business.

    Sara Kozlowski, Council of Fashion Designers of America, Director of Education and Professional Development

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      Research Labs

      Research is integral to the Parsons learning experience, and students and faculty work together to challenge existing paradigms and advance emerging scholarship and practice. Explore the thematic research laboratories housed at Parsons and throughout The New School.

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      Industry Engagement

      Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, you gain marketable problem-solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and creative industries.

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      Internships

      New York City’s thriving creative industry and cultural institutions are part of your Parsons education. Our Career Services Office is enmeshed in the art and design industries and can help you advance your career with industry-oriented internships. 

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      Funded Opportunities

      Funds are earmarked for graduate travel, research, and work to support your study. Opportunities include paid teaching assistantships, research fellowships and assistantships (including ones offered throughout The New School), ample student employment, and other grants available to U.S. domestic and international students alike.

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      Making & Academic Resources

      Enjoy access to extensive resources including New School libraries, computer labs, archives, and studios, along with Parsons’ state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to support your creative and academic growth.

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