Fashion Degree Options at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips November 10, 2025 at 09:00PM

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)'s Fashion Design department offers one of the most intense, interdisciplinary fashion design experiences in the world.

For nearly 100 years, SAIC's Fashion Design department has trained the next generation of designers, artists, and thinkers. SAIC's mission is to develop graduates' voices to participate in the global discourse. Students emerge not only as skilled designers, but with an awareness of the social, political and technological forces shaping the 21st century.

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The Department of Fashion Design offers the following degree programs:

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Fashion Design and Construction Pathway
Master of Fine Arts in Fashion, Body and Garment (2 and 3 year Tracks)

BFA in Studio: Fashion Design and Construction Pathway

The undergraduate Fashion pathway curriculum consists of a scaffolded sequence of co-taught design and construction courses over the course of the sophomore, junior and senior levels, providing a firm foundation in design through drawing, draping, pattern-making and garment construction. In courses that combine historical research with contemporary explorations, students transcend the traditional boundaries of fashion to examine clothing as it relates to lifestyle, performance, display, costume and art.

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Fashion Design Graduate Program: Two-Year MFA Track

SAIC's two-year MFA program is designed for students looking to build on their existing foundations and elevate their portfolios to new heights. This program encourages fashion students to push the boundaries of fashion design, work at a large scale and think expansively about their practices.

Fashion Design Graduate Program: Three-Year MFA Track

The three-year MFA program is designed to provide students a technical foundation for fashion design — from making patterns to learning essential construction techniques. With incoming students coming from a variety of experience and disciplinary backgrounds, this program offers an additional foundational year for the MFA in Fashion, Body & Garment, allowing students to develop and refine their fashion-related skill sets without having to start from scratch in an undergraduate program.

Learn more about SAIC's Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio: Fashion Design and Construction Pathway, or the Master of Fine Arts in Fashion, Body and Garment.

Undergraduate Program Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2026.

Graduate Program Application Deadlines: Reduced Application Fee Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025; Final: Jan. 10, 2026. 

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