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Global Fashion School Rankings 2016

Domus Academy

Milan, Italy

Domus Academy is a private design school in Milan, which offers post-graduate courses in fashion and design. Domus Academy’s curriculum consists of four core modules, each incorporating a course period and workshop period, followed by a two-month internship. Students are allowed freedom in designing their academic path and select their two final projects across different disciplines according to the career they wish to pursue. Students in our survey reacted positively to this course structure, with almost 90 percent expressing satisfaction with their work placements. Students rated courses in marketing and business highly, while courses in technical skills, digital technology and sustainability received scores that were marginally above average. With a 99 percent acceptance rate, Domus Academy is not selective. However, its student body is highly international with over 95 percent of students coming from outside of Italy.

Select Year

19th

Graduate, Fashion Ranking 2016

Full-time fashion students

325

International students

96%

Student : Teacher ratio

23:1

Tuition: Domestic/intl

$19k/$28k

Acceptance rate

99%

Graduation Rate

98%

Courses Offered

Graduate:
Master of Fashion Design, Master of Fashion Management, Master of Fashion Styling & Visual Merchandising; Master of Luxury Brand Management

Student & Alumni Comments

"Domus does not follow the typical academic model of teaching and therefore provides us with very valuable experience by exposing us to the 'real world' and the fashion industry. This is done by designing various workshops in which groups of students coming from different backgrounds have to work together to come up with a strategy and a solution, more or less as consultants."

Student

"Challenging, design-thinking approach, multi-cultural, as close as possible to a real work environment."

Alumni

"My experience was very interesting, very focused on the real Italian fashion industry, I had the opportunity to collaborate with fashion brands during my projects and found an internship right after my MA graduation. "

Alumni

Full Graduate, Fashion Ranking

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