Overview

Through our Bachelor of Design (Honours) you’ll forge powerful collaborations with a diverse range of like-minded designers and set up career-enhancing networks.

Integrate meaningful and professional workplace activities with your academic studies.
Be part of a vibrant, multidisciplinary school with excellent connections to the real world.
Learn with unique real-world, project and studio based learning.
Interact with the design community through public lectures, collaborative real-world design studios, student-run exhibitions and off-campus and international study tours.
Graduate with an Honours level qualification.

Why choose this course?This internationally recognised course integrates design with social and environmental issues. Links with other disciplines in QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty facilitate digital design in the context of virtual and interactive environments, further broadening career opportunities.Interior design at QUT has strong connections to local industry, employing award-winning practitioners as tutors and promoting student work in prominent public settings. The degree prepares students for a career in an increasingly diverse field that embraces small and large-scale design in both real and virtual environments. It also provides a foundation for transition to higher degree study at masters or PhD level.Recent focus on physical and digital experimentation and attention to body/space relations is driving the course into the third millennium. This is further supported by a growing research emphasis on design for health and social inclusion. Developed from traditional foundations, our approach extends interior design into new and emergent fields.

Accreditation

Graduates qualify for associate membership of the Design Institute of Australia. The course is an educational member of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Officially accredited/recognized by the Department of Education and Training, Australia, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a very large (enrollment range: 35,000-39,999 students) coeducational higher education institution. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) offers courses and programs leading to officialy recognized higher education degrees such as undergraduate certificates/diplomas, bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. International students are welcome to apply for enrollment.

QUT also provides several academic and non-academic facilities and services to students including a library, housing, sport facilities and/or activities, financial aids and/or scholarships, study abroad and exchange programs, online courses and distance learning opportunities, as well as administrative services.

Programme Structure

Your course

Year 1

understand the breadth of design process and theory
three foundation units covering design, design history, and sustainability
two units on core interior design studios
unit focusing on design technology

Year 2

explore issues of inhabitation in both transitory and permanent residential situations
study the theory and practice of leading designers
understand interior systems and technology, colour and design psychology
commence your second major or first minor units

Year 3

adopt an experimental attitude to design studios
discover differing approaches to the interior
study specialist areas such as furniture studies
understand the role of design in society
continue your second major or minor units

Year 4

develop a body of work that distinguishes and advances your own design interests
two semi-structured, research and professional practice-led design studios
research methods unit and a professional studies unit
complete two units of your second major or second minor

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-02-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-07 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-02-09 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Brisbane, Australia

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

IELTS

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Other requirements

General requirements

Before you start this course we assume you have sound knowledge in these areas:

English

We assume that you have knowledge equivalent to four semesters at high school level (Years 11 and 12) with sound achievement (4, SA).

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

15000 AUD / module

≈ 15000 AUD / module
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

4500 AUD / module

≈ 4500 AUD / module

Additional Details

National:2015: CSP $4,500 per Study Period (48 credit points) (subject to annual review). International:2015: $15,000 per Study Period (48 credit points) (subject to annual review)

Living costs

Brisbane

Australia

1402 - 2528 AUD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.These scholarships are available for this course:

Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship (Academic)
Creative Industries International Scholarship
Equity scholarships scheme

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Accreditation

Programme Structure

Your course

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

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Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic Applies to you

Additional Details

Living costs

Brisbane

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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