Top five fashion schools breed world’s best designers

This Monday, The Business of Fashion (BoF) released its Global Fashion School Rankings. It is the third year that BoF has put together the list, which is one of the few attempts at ranking fashion schools with a detailed methodology.

Surveys are conducted with more than 10,000 current and past students from 73 participating institutions around the world, and feedback from over 75 human resources professionals and 73 fashion academics is collected.

For those who want a head start in the runway business, here are the top five undergraduate programmes in fashion you need to keep tabs on:

1. Central Saint Martins (UK)

The fabric of Central Saint Martins is woven from Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Central School of Art, when these institutions were one in 1989.

As one of the six colleges within University of the Arts London (UAL) with a star-studded assemblage of alumni under its wing, the college has topped this list for the third year in a row. They also topped the list for both undergraduate and graduate fashion programmes for two years running.

2. Parsons School of Design (US)

Parsons School of Design is back on the charts this year, moving up three places to first runner-up. The first school in the US to offer programmes in fashion design, advertising, interior design and graphic design, Parsons resides in the vivacious urban art scene in New York City. As part of The New School, Parsons boasts an impressive student-teacher ratio of 10:1 and a flexible curriculum structure.