Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours)

The Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) is a four-year professional degree with a work placement, covering interior architecture rather than decoration.

The studio sequence progresses from design fundamentals and drawing through residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare and institutional projects of increasing complexity. Technical coursework covers building construction and systems, the Ontario Building Code and barrier-free design requirements, lighting design and calculation, acoustics, materials and specification writing, construction documentation and detailing, CAD, BIM and 3D visualisation, sustainable and WELL design principles, and professional practice including contracts and project administration.

The degree is the professional pathway: interior designers in Ontario work on regulated building interiors, produce construction documents and coordinate with architects and engineers, and professional association membership requires degree-level education. As a degree, it is also exempt from the PGWP field-of-study restriction that applies to the decorating diploma.

The work placement is a graded part of the program, so you finish with documented Canadian experience and a referee rather than only a transcript.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The North campus in Etobicoke is its main site, running technology, engineering, health science, business and skilled trades programs in purpose-built labs and shops rather than lecture halls, with three intakes a year and the deepest employer network in the Greater Toronto Area.

Its field maps to CIP 50.0408 (Interior design). Because this is a degree, graduates are exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction that applies to college credentials. Full-time on-campus study and graduation remain the conditions, and IRCC makes the final decision.