This course aims to get you thinking about the functional and aesthetic potential of interior environments. By encouraging you to think about what’s possible and engaging with design processes, you’ll discover how you can transform space, questioning the future of retail, leisure and work spaces and all interior environments outside the home.

Interior Design transforms ideas into experiences. We'll give you the opportunity to be able to create and innovate entirely new experiences and relationships between people and the places they spend time in. The emphasis is on creativity, as we explore current design thinking using this to push the boundaries to come up with new ways of looking at interactions and transforming our environments.

On this course, you can:

• Focus on the practical side of things, with the aim of helping you to prepare for a career in interior design. So we’ll give you the chance to get involved in a range of projects across several typologies, building your own unique portfolio as you move through the course.
• Use skills and experience gained over your time on the course to give you the best chance to succeed in your future career as a designer. We’ll aim to give you a thorough grounding in all the technical demands of detailing and specification alongside the creative aspects.
• Take opportunities to get out into the ‘real world’ by engaging in our placement year, where you can work in a professional design practice. It will give you the chance to gain hands-on experience, build up your professional portfolio and develop real-world skills. You’ll have the chance to gain a real insight into the industry!

Interior Design BA(Hons) is going to be challenging, but it will be engaging and inspiring too!

Interior Design has an 84.6% student satisfaction rating (NSS 2020)

Placements

The course offers an optional one-year (36 weeks minimum) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad. This will give you the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, insight into your chosen career and open up your graduate employment prospects. Our Placement Unit and academic staff have excellent industry links and can support you in applying for and finding your placement(s), as well as during your placement year.

Students on the course have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: Edge - London; Spatialized - Wakefield; Keane Brands - Birmingham; Concrete - Amsterdam; Fitch - London; PDS Design and Build – Wakefield; Concept IDL – Sheffield and Green Room Interiors – Leeds.

Alternatively, if you are a student from within the UK or the EU, you could consider starting your own small business by applying for the Enterprise Placement Year in conjunction with the University’s Enterprise Team. You’ll have the opportunity to benefit from business advice, mentoring and networking sessions. You can find out more information on the Enterprise Placement Year here.

Your Career

The course aims to help you to develop the skills needed to work within interior architecture and design firms as well as focused retail, workplace, leisure and hotel design companies around the world.

You’ll be encouraged to take part in workshops, live briefs and international design competitions. It’s all structured to get you ready for employment once you’ve graduated. Recent graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Adam & Eve (London), Google (USA), and Studio Tilt (Netherlands).**

* Percentage of graduates from this course who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (Unistats 17/18 data, UK domiciled graduates)