Academics

In this dynamic interdisciplinary undergraduate program, offered only at Parsons Paris, you explore the intersection of design, art, and technology. Through studio projects and liberal arts courses, you develop new perspectives grounded in social and political contexts and gain skills as a design thinker and practitioner. 

This program — offered both in Paris and in New York City — develops your design-thinking and creative problem-solving strategies as you explore form, silhouette, material, and process. You create innovative, sustainable, ethically made, and beautiful fashion for global markets. Graduates work with the industry's leading labels; many establish their own businesses.

This program — offered both in Paris and in New York City — immerses you in the entrepreneurial and management side of design and the design aspects of business. The interdisciplinary curriculum brings design studio courses and seminars together with a liberal arts foundation. Your learning is shaped by collaborative projects integrating design-led research and applied work to foster innovation.

The MFA in Fashion Design and the Arts program situates fashion in a radically new context, drawing on interdisciplinary research methods shaped by sustainability-driven approaches to fashion and collaborative investigations at the intersection of fashion, the visual and performing arts, and the humanities.

In this groundbreaking research-based program — offered in both Paris and New York City — fashion is studied as object, image, practice, and industry and explore fashion's connections to the body, identity, and social relations. You develop a critical understanding of fashion by drawing on disciplines including art and design history, the social sciences, and media studies. 

Academically rigorous and industry-focused, the Master of Science in Strategic Design for Global Leadership is specially designed for experienced working professionals and entrepreneurs eager to transform their approach to business. The flexible 18-month program combines online learning with on-site intensives in Paris, New York, and Asia and culminates in a Master of Science from Parsons School of Design in New York.