Bachelor of Arts - Interior Design (Honours)

BA (Hons) Interior Design trains the design of inhabited space: spatial planning and human factors, materials and finishes, lighting, technical drawing and detailing, sustainability, and the CAD and visualisation tools through which interior schemes are communicated and built.

Studio projects escalate in complexity and realism across the three years — from single spaces to hospitality, retail and adaptive-reuse schemes in real buildings — and Leicester’s stock of historic and industrial structures provides genuine sites whose constraints force the technical problem-solving that employers test.

Applicants should know that interior design in professional practice is considerably more technical than television and social media suggest: regulations, fire and accessibility standards, specification schedules and coordination with contractors occupy far more time than styling decisions. Students who embrace that reality find employment readily, while those expecting pure decoration struggle in second-year technical modules. September entries run across all three recorded cycles at the £16,800 faculty fee, with model-making, printing and materials costs additional through the studio years and software licences generally provided by the university during enrolment.

The course teaches specification and regulation alongside concept development, because interior practice lives with building standards, accessibility requirements and budgets; final-year work is presented as professional-standard drawing packages and visualisations rather than mood boards.

Junior interior design roles pay £21,000–£25,000 with practices concentrated in cities and hospitality and retail sectors hiring most actively; the qualification also transfers into exhibition, set and workplace design. The honours degree carries Graduate Route rights for 18 months under post-2026 application rules, with dependants excluded on taught study.