Associate Degree in Fashion Design and Technology

Career

This qualification provides you with high-level skills in fashion design and expert skills in specialist pattern making, managing design and product development.

With experience, you can be working as a designer or product developer, or in management positions within international fashion businesses.

Graduates have found employment with leading fashion organisations in Australia and overseas as designers, pattern makers and graders, product developers, specification technicians, quality assurance officers, production controllers, illustrators and small fashion business owner/operators.

As a fashion designer your work activities may include:

researching emerging trends in fashion, fabrics, colours and shapes

creating design concepts and presenting them using hand-drawn or computer-aided design sketches

developing fashion ranges

working within a team to develop patterns or adapt existing patterns and designs for either boutique or large scale production

overseeing production

liaising with design teams, buyers and forecasters

sourcing, selecting and buying fabrics, trims, fastenings and embellishments

developing sample garments.

Entry requirement

To study this program you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:

IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 6.0 (with no individual band below 5.5)

TOEFL (Internet Based Test - IBT): minimum overall score of 60 (with minimum of 10 in Reading, 9 in Listening, 16 in Speaking and 19 in Writing)

Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE (A)): minimum score of 50 (with no communication band less than 42)

C1 Advanced: minimum of 169 with no less than 162 in any component.