Develop Your Skills in Fashion
The minor in Fashion emphasizes creativity and experimentation and offers you the opportunity to develop basic skills in product making, fashion business decision-making, historical contexts, materials, and design foundations.
You must complete an application for the fashion programs! Admission to the Fashion Program is by online application only.
A co-major in Fashion is also available.
Fashion Curriculum and Courses
Miami’s interdisciplinary Fashion Program is housed in the Department of Art and includes courses in the Farmer Business School. Emphasizing creativity and experimentation, it offers students the opportunity to develop a broad set of basic competencies in design language, technical skills, and fashion business. These skills are fundamental for employment in the fashion industry.
The minor core consists of 21 credit hours, including choices in Fashion, Art, Textiles, and Business.
See Yourself Studying Fashion
Our program is enhanced by numerous Miami alumni who are high-level executives in the Fashion industry, one of the biggest industries in the world. They contribute program support with fabric, scholarships, mentoring, internships, and jobs. Opportunities exist for an applied international fashion experience and a study away in New York City.
Our facilities include a textile library and lab, a historic costume collection, well-lit drawing/design rooms, industrial sewing machines, professional dress forms, space for draping and patternmaking, a digital fabric printer, and display areas for 2D and 3D student work. In addition, students have access to a digital design lab and the King Library Maker Space with 3D printers, sublimation textile printer, laser cutter/engraver, CNC mills, embroidery machines, touchscreens, virtual reality headsets, teleprompters, 360 cameras, and more.
The Miami Fashion Community
In addition, many fashion students are members of one or more fashion-related student organizations:
- Miami University Fashion and Design (MUF&D) student organization is the largest student organization on campus with 750+ members and numerous leadership opportunities, including the production of an annual student-led fashion show.
- UP Magazine provides opportunities relating to strategic communications, media and culture, publishing, and social media in preparation for fashion industry careers.
- Futures in Retail, a National Retail Federation Student Association, develops awareness of data analytics, supply chain, finance, accounting, merchandising, marketing, management, and interactive media studies careers in the retail sector.
Facts and Stats
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Fashion Minor Application Requirements
Spring 2026 Applications
Applications will open Spring Semester, Jan. 6 through Feb. 28. Students will be notified of acceptance within 2-3 weeks before Fall 2026 registration.
You must complete an application for the fashion programs! Admission to the Fashion Program is by online application only.
- Applications to the Fashion programs are reviewed once each semester.
- The application to the Fashion Program is open for a month at the beginning of each semester.
- Then, the applications will be closed for the rest of each semester.
- After the application period ends, all applications will be accepted and DARs will reflect the acceptance before registration for the next semester.
*Note for students who have not yet been accepted to the program: Anyone can register for FAS 101 Introduction to the Fashion Industry during any semester, as well as any other 100 or 200 level fashion course that still has seats after current fashion students have registered (once general registration begins ) as long as they have fulfilled any prerequisites. Before that, most fashion courses are restricted to students who have already been accepted into the Fashion Program. If you wish to register for a course and are not allowed, please put your name on the Force Add a Course list, and you may be admitted later.
Contact Us
Natalie Reed
Assistant Teaching Professor/Fashion Program Coordinator
Department of Art
Boyd Hall 222
551 Western College Dr.
Oxford, OH 45056