About the Department

Rani Birla Girls' College, Kolkata, introduced a self-financed three-year undergraduate degree course in Fashion and Apparel Design, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, from the 2008-09 academic session. The department offers students an opportunity to build up a career at the end of third year from college campus itself in one of the most promising areas in textile and garments.

Admission is open to all students who have passed 10+2 examinations from any stream, from any recognized Board. Also, students who have passed 10+2 examination in Vocational stream conducted by the West Bengal State Council of Vocational Education & Training are eligible to get admission into this course.

The course curriculum includes subjects like Communicative English, pattern making, garment construction, fashion illustration, surface ornamentation of textiles, accessory designing, wet processing, dyeing and finishing of garments, portfolio presentation, internship and project presentation, which allow students to build a career in consonance with a globalised economy and contemporary consumerist trends.

Practical classes are conducted in textile testing, garment construction, pattern making fashion illustration and computer labs. The department is well equipped with latest instruments such as Juki & Brother sewing machines, the latest versions of pattern making and designing software, textile testing instruments, dyeing machines, looms etc.

Further, the department offers industrial training to the final year students in well-known commercial houses. Job Placement is also offered to all the third year students at commercial houses of repute. Students of the department have proved themselves eligible for further studies at different universities across the country.