The Advanced Study Program in Beauty Industry Management is a comprehensive curriculum that prepares students to identify, implement, and solve management issues within the beauty industry. This program offers students both theoretical and practical foundations in the discipline that emphasize the development of business management skills in the beauty industry including human resources, managerial decision making, forecasting and analysis, sales, negotiation and conflict resolution, merchandising, product innovation, and public relations and finance.

What Our Students Learn In our program, students learn analytical and management skills to develop and cultivate global beauty brands. Students learn how to forecast and manage targeted marketing campaigns, and negotiate to meet business goals.

Why FIDM Beauty Industry Management students are exposed to the industry first-hand, from a mandatory industry internship to a week in New York meeting with management at companies such as Coty, L'Oréal, Philosophy, LVMH/Dior, and more.

REQUIRED CLASSES FOR ADVANCED STUDY (for students with a prior FIDM degree)

COSM 3180 Fundamentals of Beauty Business Law

COSM 3250 Beauty: Purchasing & Planning

COSM 3350 Human Resources & Organizational Behavior

COSM 3360 Beauty: Luxury Brand Development

COSM 3400 Managerial Decision Making

COSM 3420 Beauty: Business Management & Finance

COSM 3450 Merchandising in the Beauty Environment

COSM 3600 Product Innovation

COSM 3660 Beauty: Regulatory Affairs & Import/Export Strategies

COSM 3850 Beauty: Sales, Negotiation & Conflict Management 3

COSM 3950 Internship

GNST 3200 Consumer Social Behavior

SMED 2750 E-Commerce Marketing

SMED 3700 International Strategies for New Media

SMED 3750 PR Writing for Social Media

Total Units of Credit  45

This program starts in the fall on the Los Angeles campus.

Prerequisites: FIDM degree in Beauty Marketing & Product Development, Merchandise Product Development*, or Merchandising & Marketing*

Merchandising & Marketing* *These A.A. majors also require the following three (3) courses: – (COSM 2350) Beauty: Fundamentals of Fragrance – (COSM 2450) Beauty: Fundamentals of Cosmetics – (COSM 2650) Principles of Beauty Technology

One-on-one advisement is available to students from other FIDM Majors to consider eligibility for special admissions to this program. Contact the appropriate department chairperson.