Professional & Organizational Development

Fashion business courses teach basic business practices in the context of fashion and design. They prepare students to work in a variety of fields in the fashion industry, including marketing, retailing, and merchandising. Designed for the individual on the go, the Fashion Business Certificate can be completed online or through a combination of online and on-campus courses at Parsons School of Design. The certificate includes courses like Marketing in a Global Environment and Fashion History. Take your passion and turn it into a profitable business!

Certificate Requirements

• Course requirements: 8 individual online and/or on-campus courses, 6 required courses and 2 electives. 

• Timeline to completion: Most courses last nine weeks or more. Courses meeting for fewer than (9) nine sessions count as half of an elective and would need to be combined to fulfill one elective requirement. Most students take two courses per semester. Certificate must be completed in two years.

• Cost: $748 - $769 per course, estimated $5,984 total

Students are encouraged to complete the required courses in the following suggested order:

1. Consumer Behavior
2. Fashion Merchandising
3. Medium of Fashion: Textiles
4. Worth to Westwood: Fashion from the 19th to 21st Century
5. Retail Buying
6. Fashion Marketing in a Global Environment

This flexible noncredit certificate is specially crafted for professionals who understand the power of using a design-led approach to innovate business solutions across industries. Courses in this program use cross-disciplinary methods to change the way approach organizational context in its many facets—from strategy, to outreach, to service—empowering intra- and entrepreneurs alike to transform business practices with creative solutions. 

Certificate Details:

• Course requirements: 5 individual online courses

• Timeline to completion: Courses last six weeks or less. Most students take two courses per semester. Certificate must be completed in two years.

• Cost: $525 per course, $2,625 total

The Design Leadership for Business Certificate consists of five courses. Students planning to earn the certificate are encouraged to complete courses in the following suggested order:

1. Design Thinking Fundamentals 
2. Design Leadership and Management
3. Design and Innovation for Sustainable Business 
4. Economic and Cultural Context of Design
5. Futures and Foresight

Whether you’re looking to give depth and purpose to your career path in marketing itself, an entrepreneur seeking to break out, or a leader aiming to inspire best-in-class strategic approaches to marketing from your team, our online certificate program will equip you with skills at the forefront of the industry. Learn to develop brand strategies and identities across a range of digital platforms, conquer the social media arena, understand leading techniques for effective user acquisition and to be a force of growth in your business.

Certificate Requirements

• Course requirements: 5 individual online courses

• Timeline to completion: Courses last six weeks or less. Most students take two courses per semester. Certificate must be completed in two years.

• Cost: $525 per course, $2,625 total cost.

The Digital Marketing Certificate consists of five courses and are designed to be taken in order, but all courses are open to students wishing to explore any particular topic. The last course, Digital Marketing Campaigns, is the capstone course and should be taken by students who have completed the previous courses, or have significant digital marketing experience. Students planning to earn the certificate are encouraged to complete courses in the following suggested order:

1. The Digital Marketing Ecosystem: An Introduction
2. Getting Creative: Your Digital Marketing Strategy
3. Social Media Marketing
4. Programmatic, Mobile, and Native Marketing
5. Digital Marketing Campaigns