Working individually and in teams, you'll study fashion marketing, product development, planning, and fashion management. You'll master the skills needed in global retail operations and management, and learn how to combine your sense of style with business acumen.

The Fashion Business Management One-Year Associate Degree program is available online.

Highlights

  • Fashion Business Management at FIT is the largest and oldest degree program of its kind in the country.
  • An advisory board of industry executives ensures that the program reflects current standards and practices in the field.
  • The programs close ties to industry and alumni offer extensive networking opportunities.
  • The International Fashion Business Management Program in Florence and New York—the only one of its kind—allows students to take one year of their bachelor's program at FIT and one year at the Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing in Italy.
  • Students win industry scholarships.

In this program, you'll:

  • have opportunities to take field trips to stores and corporate offices and meet with industry executives.
  • collaborate with fellow students on extracurricular projects in student clubs, including the Merchandising Society, Collegiate DECA, Runway 27, and the Black Retail Group (BRAG).
  • learn about global merchandising strategies in classes in New York and see them come to life in study abroad programs in Australia, London, Hong Kong, Paris, Rome, and Florence.