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Explore our comprehensive range of programs, courses, and short courses designed to help you achieve your educational goals and advance your career.

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Undergraduate
120 Credits
BSc - Fashion Business and Communication
BSC-001
4 Years

The BSc Fashion Business and Communication program, aims to prepare you for a successful career in the complex and competitive global fashion industry. This course will challenge you by equipping you with knowledge and skills in product planning, brand management, sustainability, supply chain, business analysis and financial accounting, retail and marketing. It will encourage you to become leaders and innovators in the business of fashion.

Associate Degree
60 Credits
AD, Fashion Business and Marketing
ADFBM-001
2 Years

This program is created to equip students with the strategic, analytical, digital, and operational knowledge and skills required for entry-level roles in the dynamic global fashion business ecosystem, including buying, merchandising, marketing, branding, retail, and e-commerce.

Diploma
45 Credits
Diploma in Fashion Design
DFD-001
3 Semesters

The Fashion Design one-year DFD program offers qualified students the opportunity to prepare for positions as designers, assistant designers, technical designers, or stylists. Through the application of design knowledge and experiential learning, the students develop their unique sense of aesthetics. Successful students will be able to adapt and apply their acquired knowledge to the evolving fashion industry, related design fields, and other creative careers.

Undergraduate
120 Credits
BFA - Fashion Design
BFA-001
4 Years

The BFA Fashion Design program promotes collaboration at every level, allowing students to engage in projects alongside peers from other disciplines, including those enrolled in the BSc Fashion Business course. This program advocates for the break down all societal barriers and perceptions when describing gender and identity. We embrace a non-gendered approach. Students are encouraged to expand and challenge concepts by mastering a variety of techniques, ranging from traditional hand skills to advanced computerized machinery, pushing the limits to achieve unique outcomes. They are expected to engage with emerging practices and experimentation with new technologies as a part of a new forward-thinking approach to education. The BA Fashion Design program at Phnom Penh Fashion Institute aims to refine students' skills, supported by a distinguished faculty of experienced practitioners and researchers with international recognition, who come from varied backgrounds and maintain strong industry connections at the forefront of fashion. Students are innovators, critical thinkers, and pioneers, thriving in the vibrant and dynamic art school atmosphere that sets PPFI apart from other fashion programs. Learning occurs through diverse experiences within a community, where students are encouraged to collaborate with peers and industry professionals to enhance their learning, understanding, and opportunities.

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active
12 Weeks
Fashion Illustration
SCH-005
Short Course

The course explores how fashion illustration can translate across different formats and can be produced using a variety of different techniques and technologies. Following a traditional approach to drawing, the student will learn a wide variety of illustration skills that will apply on physical and digital formats.

active
12 Weeks
Introduction to Fashion Design
SCH-007
Short Course

This introduction course will provides students with an overview of the fashion design industry. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on projects, and field trips, students will explore the fundamentals of fashion design, including design principles, garment construction, and industry standards. This course is designed for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in fashion design or those who want to gain a better understanding of the fashion industry.

active
12 Weeks
Fashion Photography
SCH-012
Short Course

This 12-week program immerses beginners/intermediate students in the technical, creative, and strategic dimensions of fashion photography. Through studio shoots, location work, and digital labs, students master camera fundamentals while experimenting with lighting, composition, and post-production. The curriculum balances industry realism with artistic exploration—covering editorial, commercial, and digital content creation - culminating in a professional portfolio.

active
12 Weeks
Fashion Business
SCH-009
Short Course

Fashion Business is a course that provides the skills for those students, who want to enter the business aspect of the fashion industry, with a strategic and market oriented blend of the main perspectives: marketing, communication, management, buying, retail and supply chain.

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active
3 Credits
FASHION ILLUSTRATION III
FD1007
core

This course explores many aspects of fashion illustration, from drawing basic fashion figures to producing finished professional illustrations in color. The course addresses fashion illustration from the perspectives of both fashion designers and fashion illustrators and examines the role of fashion illustration in different areas of the fashion industry.

active
3 Credits
GENERAL ENGLISH II
GE0002
compulsory

Students further develop students' oral and aural situational fluency and acquire reading and writing skills in this course. Students read level-appropriate authentic texts, and are introduced to text analysis as well as basic sentence and paragraph structure. Students work on grammar and vocabulary development with special attention to verb forms and parts of speech. Students build communication skills in spoken English to maintain a conversation with interlocution and to satisfy uncomplicated social demands and basic living needs. Students build upon phonetic awareness through sound/spelling correspondences and vowel and consonant recognition.

active
3 Credits
FASHION DESIGN STUDIO II
FD1010
core

This course allows students to further develop 2D and 3D design skills and practices within the context of the discipline, and to build on the skills introduced in previous module. Students will then continue to refine their approaches in regard to primary research and balancing the technical with the aesthetic.

active
3 Credits
STRATEGIES OF MERCHANDISING
FDNFBM007
core

Strategies of Merchandising I is an elective course for the BFA degree in Fashion Design. Its focus is on developing merchandise strategies to effectively buy, plan and merchandise a retail business in stores and on a website. Students will gain experience by actively developing merchandise plans using industry analytics