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Jewelry created in 3D printer
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You love fashion and the statements that well-designed apparel communicates. In the undergraduate fashion design degree program at Ursuline, you'll learn and practice all the essential aspects of design, including:
You’ll learn business and technology skills, ensuring your success beyond Ursuline. And your fashion design skill-building will culminate in a final presentation of a designed collection at your Senior Innovations fashion show.
Enjoy access to our robust on-campus facilities, which include CAD, 3-D printing, work stations with color printers, scanners, Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Illustrator, Photoshop), and access to online fashion resources. You'll also work with sewing, industrial sewing, and cover stitch machines, multi-thread sergers, industry-standard pattern drafting tables, and standard Wolf dress forms.
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Students in the fashion design degree program may choose to spend their third year at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Students who choose this track receive an (AAS) Associate in Applied Science Degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology upon graduation from Ursuline College.
For those interested in the business side of fashion, Ursuline also offers an undergraduate Fashion Merchandising program.
To apply to the fashion design undergraduate program at Ursuline College, you must submit:
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, but we encourage you to apply by our priority deadline of November 1 for the best access to scholarships and financial aid.
The fashion industry offers graduates a variety of fashion design career options:
Apparel Designer
Costume Designer
Fashion Illustrator
Stylist
Fashion Forecaster
Color Specialist
Apparel Manufacturer
CAD Designer
Fashion Beading Specialist
Garment Restoration
Fashion Preservation
Fashion Research
Retail and Merchandising
To teach at the university level, fashion design majors are strongly encouraged to pursue a master’s degree.
Alumni of Ursuline’s Fashion Design program have gone on to hold positions at some of the world’s most prestigious fashion employers, including:
Fashion designers earn an average salary of $80,690 per year and about 2,300 openings for fashion designers are projected each year, on average, over the next decade.
