• Fashion Management Online MPS

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  • The online master’s in Fashion Management enables you to become a leader in the fashion business world while studying 100 percent online from anywhere in the world. In this one-year degree program, you learn to develop groundbreaking ideas and approaches for fashion businesses, start-ups, and fashion-related services. You benefit from the academic leadership, resources, and industry networks that have placed Parsons at the forefront of fashion education, gaining leading-edge skills in global and local manufacturing, ethical production, value chains, marketing, and merchandising.

    Program Highlights

    • Leading-Edge Online Learning

      Participate in online courses including synchronous sessions in which you engage with your professors and collaborate with fellow students. 

    • Future of Fashion Business

      Immerse yourself in the future-facing fashion industry and explore its intersections with technology, innovation, local and global leadership, entrepreneurship, and new business models. 

    • Creativity + Commerce

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

    • Business Innovation

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

    • NYC Perspectives

      Benefit from courses, virtual site visits, and guest speakers deeply rooted in New York City’s global fashion scene, with the option to join the orientation seminar on campus.

    • Applicant Profile

      The program welcomes a cohort of self-driven students with fashion industry and business experience along with individuals from other backgrounds related to the creative, retail, and consumer goods industries. 

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

  • Curriculum

    The dynamic Fashion Management curriculum is available 100% online, allowing you to access and complete coursework wherever you may be. There are numerous benefits of online learning, including small class sizes and a leading-edge online learning platform that facilitates close interaction with classmates, faculty, and industry leaders. All online students follow the same sequence of courses as on-campus students.

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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 fashion styling and visual merchandising, product merchandising and production, fashion editorial content development, and brand management.

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

  • This new online program shows Parsons’ commitment to accessibility, offering cutting edge fashion education from anywhere in the world.

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      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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      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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      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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