MFM (Master in Fashion Management) Course Syllabus, Subjects, Course Curriculum, NIFT Syllabus 2023

Master in Fashion Management (MFM course) is a 2 year postgraduate degree in the field of fashion management covering all the necessary aspects needed to become skillful professionals in the fashion industry.

To pursue this course, the minimum eligibility is a graduation degree in any domain. Admission is mostly done through NIFT MFM Exam, whose syllabus is discussed in the last section.

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MFM Syllabus

The course curriculum of this master in fashion management course includes basic training in the form of classroom learning, case method, role plays, presentations, group assignments, seminars, symposiums, etc.

The table below shows some of a semester wise breakup of Master of Fashion Management Syllabus:

Semester I	Semester II
Basics of Fashion	Fashion Finance & Economics
Process of Garment Manufacturing	Logistics & Resource management
Fashion Marketing & Merchandising	Fashion Communication
Fashion Design Process	Lifestyle Journalism
Fashion Styling & Photography	.
Semester III	Semester IV
E-commerce	Industry Internship
Consumer Behaviour	Fashion Event Management
Research Methodology	Masters Project
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship	.
Communication skill, Grooming & Etiquettes	.
Visual Merchandising & Window Display	.

MFM Subjects

The table below shows some of the topics and units which are covered in few of the common MFM course syllabus:

Name of the Subject	Topics & Units included
Fashion Marketing & Merchandising	Retail Strategies, Retail organization, Role of a fashion buyer, Range Planning Marketing, National sourcing & International sourcing, Market research, Visual Merchandising, Introduction to merchandising, etc.
Fashion Design Process	Types of Design, Design elements, Colour theory, Design Concept, etc.
Fashion Communication	Design Processes and Thinking Communication Concepts & Processes Introduction to Advertising Graphic Design for Fashion Creative Advertising & Media Planning Professional Ethics & Responsibilities, etc.
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship	Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Behaviours, Entrepreneurial Traits, Intellectual Property Rights, etc.
Process of Garment Manufacturing	Raw material, Process flow in the garment industry, Making Patterns, Use of patterns, Stitching, assembling parts, Quality features of garments and how to maintain its quality, etc.

MFM Books

Some of the major books included in the Master of Fashion Management course curriculum are:

Name of the Book	Name of the Author
Pattern Making for Pattern Design	Armstrong and Joseph.H.
Fashion Buying	Helen Goworek, Blackwell Science
Elements of Design and Apparel Design	Sumanth. G.
Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice	Peter McNeil and Sanda Miller
Design and Analysis of Experiments	Montgomery, Douglas C.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Druckar, Peter

NIFT MFM Exam Syllabus

Students need to qualify General Ability Test (GAT) in order to get admission in MFM course, which consist of the following sections:

Quantitative Ability
Communication Ability and English Comprehension
Analytical and Logical Ability
General Knowledge and Current Affairs
Case Study

Syllabus of NIFT exam GAT is described below:

Quantitative Ability: This section tests the quantitative ability of candidates, consisting of questions from the topics such as Number system, Percentage, Rate of Interest, Work and Task, Ratio and Proportion and Distance, etc.
Communicative Ability & English Comprehension: In this section, the students are tested on the basis of their language skills and its use in day-to-day communication in English.
Analytical Ability & Logical Ability: This section tests the candidate’s capacity for the ability of inference and logic from the given information.
General Knowledge and Current Affairs: This section is designed to test the candidate’s general awareness and current affairs knowledge.
Case Study: The Case Study is designed especially to test the managerial skills of the candidate. It is based on a situation of an industry environment in which the candidate has to analyze and provide solutions to the questions asked.

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