Fashion Studies, Bachelor of Science

Admission

For more information about admission to this and other acclaimed undergraduate programs at St. John’s University, please visit Undergraduate Admission online. Or contact us directly at the campus of your choice:

Admission Office - Queens Campus
718-990-2000
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If you’re interested in Distance Learning, you may call either office.

St. John's Vincentian Commitment

Today we know that in an industry featuring fast fashion made abroad, not every worker shares in the post-pandemic fashion economy. Even workers at home, employed in retail and manufacturing, often have low wages and little chance of advancement.  St. John’s University, as a significant Catholic Vincentian university, chose with this major to focus on ways in which the economic success of the industry may be shared with all those who create it. College students especially have a role to play in this, examining the lives and contributions of workers in other countries. This makes the St. John’s Fashion Studies program unique to other programs, in trying to make the industry more responsive to all who support it.

Student Opportunities

In addition to exciting major courses in law, management, marketing, economics and more, all fashion-centered, the program offers a creativity and entrepreneurship focus. Many students today are interested in starting fashion and beauty businesses online. Students also may volunteer as interns at fashion shows, or enroll in semester-long credit internships in New York City, a major world center of fashion.

Preparation for Advanced Study

The Fashion Studies major is combined with a strong University liberal arts core, and many elective course opportunities. Students are prepared well by the program for advanced study in areas such as business, fashion or law.

What Sets Us Apart

The business, ethics and sustainability; the Vincentian mission which allows for academic service learning in classes, study abroad, and the attention in business fashion classes with the need to improve the lives of workers globally and at home;  emphasis on reducing harm to the environment of fast fashion and of excess fashion creating waste and environmental issues and more. Also emphasis on fashion student entrepreneurship.