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Discover how beauty meets practicality through a career in interior design. Enhance everyday life by reshaping the environments where people live, work, relax, and recover. Creative thinkers with an eye for technical precision will excel in VIU's Interior Design program.
This program teaches you to craft built spaces that are both visually appealing and highly functional. You'll gain valuable hands-on experience through studio work, lab sessions, and real-world projects. Regardless of your preferred learning approach, the theoretical courses are designed to be captivating and impactful.
VIU's Bachelor of Interior Design merges academic concepts with specialized training and skill development for this dynamic profession. Ideal for aspiring professionals, it prepares students for diverse opportunities across residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and institutional sectors - creating interiors that "optimize functionality, enrich occupants' quality of life, and showcase visual appeal". The curriculum blends theory with practical application, developing communication abilities, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills essential for design careers. Through lectures, studio work, critiques, digital labs, collaborative projects, field studies, internships, and a comprehensive final project, students build a strong foundation for continuous growth while honing analytical and creative thinking abilities.
To meet the English language requirements for academic program, students must have completed:
VIU English Language Centre's - Successful completion of University Preparation Level 5
International Baccalaureate English A1/A2 - Higher Level (HL)/ Standard Level (SL) grade 3 or higher
IELTS 6.5 (with no band under 6.0)
TOEFL 550 (with no section under 56)
TOEFL iBT 88 (with no section under 20)
Pearson (PTE) 60 no section below 60
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English with a minimum Cambridge English Score of 176.
Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English with a minimum Cambridge English Score of 176.