Fashion Designing courses

About Fashion Design in Fanshawe College

The fast-paced, rapidly changing world of fashion needs people to produce innovative and forward thinking designs. If you are interested in a career that rewards your passion for developing and creating a cutting-edge product, the Fashion Design program will help design your future.

About Fanshawe's fashion design program

Fanshawe's fashion design program provides a supportive and nurturing environment for you and other emerging Canadian fashion designers. Through our fashion designing courses, you'll develop creative designs, visual communication and business marketing skills, as well as apparel production technologies. As well, you'll have the opportunity to learn practical skills like fashion illustration, computer aided design, pattern-making and draping, and garment construction. 

In addition to learning these valuable techniques in your fashion design courses, you'll have the opportunity to apply them through a combination of lab work, field trips, and work term experience. As part of these experiential learning requirements, you'll also receive advice from faculty and other professionals in the Portfolio and Career Development course. By the time you've finished your degree, you can be on the job and ready to work.

With a focus on a balance of artistic, theoretical, and practical training, the Fashion Design program can give you a head start in the career you're looking for.

Career Opportunities

Graduates find employment in positions of development production and production in apparel manufacturing including designers, assistant designers, technical designers, computerized fashion illustrators, pattern makers, graders, quality controller technicians, or CAD aided design technologists.  Graduates could also become independent designers or consultants.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Class 12 passed students from a recognized board including CBSE, CISCE or a state board
• All India Senior School Certificate or Higher Secondary Certificate/Standard 12 or Indian School Certificate (Year 12) as recognized qualifications
• Final minimum average of 65.0% based on the highest six Grade 12 University (U) or University/College (M) courses

English language requirements (one of the below):

IELTS: International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic test with an overall score of 5.5  - 7.0 with no score less than 5.0 - 6.5 in reading and listening and a score of 7.0 in writing and speaking, with test results within the last two years
Please note, some Whitireia degree level programmes require a higher level of English language competence. 

TOEFL iBT :Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) test with a minimum score of 60 - 100for the Internet-based test (iBT), with test results within the last two years

PTE: Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) with a minimum score of 40 - 65, with test results within the last two years

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Fanshawe College Tuition fee/Cost of Attendance

To provide prospective students an indication of the minimal account balance required before applying for admission to Fanshawe College, the anticipated cost of expenditures is as follows:

Tuition fee

The cost of tuition varies depending on the length and difficulty level of each programme offered at Fanshawe College. However, the average anticipated cost is as follows:

International Applicants: 2,135 to 12,450 USD.

Domestic Applicants: 1,035 to 4,590 USD.

Other Expenses including textbooks, housing, food, entertainment, among others: 7,600 to 9,120 USD.8

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