Stony Brook University Fashion Business Management

What makes FIT students so different? Our students know the industry.

There's an unsuitable alignment between the talents apparel and retail manufacturers are looking for and the skills graduates have as they enter the workforce. This misalignment has critical implications for their businesses. Companies in the retail and wholesale fashion industries are unable to grow and compete because they struggle to identify properly skilled talent who understand the nature of the business they are going into. This can result in unfilled job openings or applicants not being able to take on a new project or major initiatives.

It's not just businesses that recognize the disconnect between what companies need and what graduates know. FIT SUNY Korea is focused on making sure that every one of our students is equipped to take the career world by storm. FIT is effective at preparing students for the workforce.

We provide each individual student and university partner with a high-quality program with a strengths-based approach to career readiness and a high level of accountability.

Our program is always looking for experiential learning opportunities, such as internships which allows our students to gain even more experience in the field while they take classes.

Simulation-based learning integrates cognitive, technical, and behavioral skills into an environment where learners believe the setting is real, act as they would responding in the field, and feel safe to make mistakes for the purpose of learning from them.

Simulation is a technique for practice and learning that can be applied to many different disciplines and trainees. It is a technique (not a technology) to replace and amplify real experiences with guided ones, often “immersive” in nature, that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion. Simulation-based learning can be the way to develop a students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes, while protecting them from unnecessary risks.

The Merchandising Society, FIT's largest student club, operates our on-campus boutique –The Retail Revolution. The Retail Revolution gives members valuable experience in buying, product development, marketing, finance, customer relations, customer service, management, visual merchandising, and sales.

The Retail Revolution provides FIT students with “real world” retail experience. Students manage and lead a retail operation making key commercial and leadership decisions. They serve as buyers, managers, retail sales associates, marketers, designers and other key industry roles.

The Retail Revolution boutique is not a simulation. It is an actual functioning retail store whose experience is designed specifically for developing the commercial awareness and capability of FBM students going into the retail sector. The boutique provides a powerful and engaging learning experience set in the context of the current retail environment. Students develop new skills and insights around what it takes to manage a successful retail operation in today’s competitive marketplace.

The Retail Revolution represents a Powerful Learning Experience. FIT students make key decisions in all the critical areas of the operation of the business, including marketing, promotions, propositions, sales, stock management, staff management, store management, overheads and managing the P&L. The dynamic nature of the club enables students to see the true impact of each decision and how it impacts all elements of the retail operation and also the overall business performance.