Apparel and Fashion Design (Sino-French Cooperation) Program: its predecessor is the Apparel and Fashion Design program established in 1999, and it is a characteristic major of Ningbo City. Relying on the advantages of Ningbo's local clothing industry and French fashion education resources, this major has established cooperative design platforms with Ledin of Ningbo Peacebird Group, Fiocco Clothing, MQD Children’s Clothing and other famous brands; in terms of international cooperation, except for the cooperation with the University of Angers (France), it also maintains long-term friendly relationship with professional colleges and universities in many countries and regions, such as Nottingham Trent University (UK), The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, the University of Bunka Gakuen (Japan), Dongshin University (South Korea), Shih Chien University (Taiwan), and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, etc.

    This program is aimed at cultivating talents serving clothing industry and requires students to master the basic theories, methods and skills of clothing design, clothing production and clothing industry management; students will acquire proficiency in two foreign languages-French and English; possess strong language and literal expression and interpersonal communication abilitites, and the basic abilities to solve and analyze various problems in clothing design and management; get familiar with the knowledge and skills related to fashion trends, enterprise operation and brand management; understand the international and domestic development trends of this discipline and related fields, and possess certain scientific research abilities. The teaching process focuses on the cultivation of students' innovation and design abilities, actively organizes the students to participate in national and provincial clothing design competitions, integrates corporate design projects, and guides the transformation of students' creative ideas to market value.

    Careers of the graduates: Chinese and French fashion brand companies, fashion design studios, fashion trading companies, fashion media, colleges specialized in fashion, fashion marketing companies, cultural and artistic institutions, etc.

Enrollment Statistics 2018-2023(based on the scores of the enrolled students who took the college entry exam in Zhejiang Province):