Located in downtown Toronto, Ryerson’s school of fashion is the oldest fashion programme in Canada. Ryerson is highly competitive and has a low acceptance rate of sixteen percent for fashion design and fourteen percent for fashion communication programmes. All undergraduate students are required to complete four hundred hours of fashion industry internships between the second and final years of study, and third year students can apply for international exchange programmes. Students commented that the school covers technical skills well, however some of the technology is dated and lacking in conceptual content. Graduate courses are small in size enabling personalised instruction. Students were dissatisfied by careers services, which are somewhat limited by the smaller scale of the Canadian fashion industry. However, over 70 percent of BA and MA alumni in our survey found jobs within 6 months of graduating.