Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Scheme in Fashion and Textiles (last intake in 2022/23)

At SFT, academic advising involves helping students to understand the aims of university education, the culture and forms of learning at university, academic culture at SFT, their chosen broad discipline of Fashion and Textiles, available specialisms and the paths that could be taken so that students can develop their self-development plan to achieve their goals and monitor their own progress.

General University Requirements

According to the 4-year programme curriculum, students are required to complete 30 credits in the General University Requirements (GUR) apart from fulfilling the Discipline-Specific Requirement (DSR) subjects.

Graduates with 2 years of relevant post-qualification experience can apply for Associateship of the Textile Institute (ATI) in the UK. 

Graduates can also apply for Graduate Membership of the Hong Kong Institution of Textile and Apparel (GHKITA).

Graduates have career opportunities in the fashion and textiles industry and related fields, including the following:

• Fashion and textile design
• Knitwear design
• Product development
• Pattern making
• Fitting
• Marketing/sales management
• Buying/merchandising
• Fashion retailing
• Social media analytics
• Luxury brand management
• Global fashion management
• Manufacturing/production
• Quality and colour control

All students will start the programme with three common semesters that provide a foundation based on the major activities of the fashion and textiles industry. After the common semesters, students will be streamed to one of the five specialisms according to their individual preference.

For the design-related Specialisms, i.e. Design, and Knitwear Design and Technology, students have to get through a design interview after completion of their first year of study after admission.

In principle, all students are offered a free choice of specialism. However, a contingency procedure will be followed in the unlikely event that a particular specialism is over-subscribed. Each specialism has a threshold number of students determined by the teaching resources of the department, and the contingency procedure will be applied when such threshold is reached. In this case, students will be required to declare a selection list of specialisms in order of preference. The pool of students in the over-subscribed specialism will be ranked according to their academic performance during the past three semesters. Students with less satisfactory performance will have to join their second choice specialism.

In the subsequent semesters after admission to respective specialism, compulsory subjects pertaining to each specialism are offered together with a wide range of elective subjects to enrich students’ learning experience. Furthermore, students will undertake mandatory language subjects, General University Requirement (GUR) subjects and Work-Integrated Education (WIE) in fulfilment of graduation requirements.

Please click here to view the entrance requirements for non-JUPAS applicants.

Other Information

Interview will be conducted in English between March and July (for both design and non-design specialisms).

Suitable candidates may be invited to interview at PolyU or via Skype/ Microsoft Teams

The admission interview is for the BA Scheme, not individual specialism. All students will start the programme with 3 common semesters. Students, after the 3 common semesters, will be streamed to one of the 5 specialisms according to students' individual preference and academic results. For the design-related specialisms, i.e. Design; and Knitwear Design and Technology, students have to get through a design interview after completion of their first year of study after admission.