Program Overview

Interior Design

Overview

The Interior Design program at the University of Salford is a three-year undergraduate degree that focuses on transforming spaces using artistic flair and logic. The program covers various aspects of interior design, including design for commercial building interiors, temporary structures, and domestic environments.

Course Details

Year One

• Design Principles and Interventions: This module introduces students to the fundamental principles of 3D design and builds awareness of a design vocabulary through a series of exciting short projects.
• Representation: This module aims to provide students with an understanding of design procedures and ways of working that will help them generate, develop, communicate, and realize design solutions.
• Creating Spaces: This module introduces students to the variety of individuals or customers who, as designers, they need to please, and focuses on hospitality.
• Exploring Design Contexts: This module encourages students to consider a range of perspectives on creative practice, including critical, ethical, cultural, political, and commercial viewpoints.

Year Two

• Architectural Technology and Sustainable Design: This module introduces students to appropriate forms of technology, construction, materials, and regulatory issues, and studies how these are utilized in the production of interior design project work.
• Specialist Design Project: This module explores an area of specialism within interior design, such as the design of a co-working space in an interesting existing building.
• Developing Design Contexts: This module allows students to investigate and test their position in relation to creative and cultural communities and to make connections to wider cultural contexts.
• Industry Practice: This module allows students to undertake a period of work placement, enabling them to apply and develop their knowledge and skills gained on the course.

Year Three

• Regeneration: This module aims to further develop students' ability to apply knowledge, appropriate skills, conceptual and creative thinking, to produce practical and aesthetically appropriate building interiors.
• Feasibility Report: This module further develops research methodologies established within year two, providing an evidence base with which to inform and evaluate design directions within the Self-Directed Project.
• Self-Directed Project: The final self-directed project acts as a conclusion to the course, enabling students to continue in the development of a more personalized program of study, supporting personal careers aspirations and directions.
• Applied Design Contexts: This module is a chance for students to investigate a subject of their own choosing around contemporary issues relating to their discipline and produce an extended body of work.

Assessment

Assessments are an important part of the interior design degree at the University of Salford. Students will take part in a variety of assessments, including coursework, presentations, essays, and a dissertation.

Employment and Stats

Graduates of the Interior Design program can pursue a range of careers in the interior design field, including architectural and interior design practices, large retail organizations, construction departments, and film and TV companies. Many graduates have worked both locally and internationally, with some pursuing opportunities as far afield as Hong Kong, New York, and San Francisco.

Requirements

To gain a place on this interior design course, students must submit a personal statement and meet the entry requirements. The standard entry requirements include:

• GCSE English Language and Maths at grade C/level 4 or above (or equivalent)
• UCAS tariff points: 96-112 points
• A level: 96-112 points
• T level: Pass (C in core subject)
• BTEC National Diploma: DMM including Art & Design/Design & Technology
• BTEC Higher National Diploma: Applicants may be considered for entry into year two
• Foundation Degree: Overall pass
• Access to HE: 112 points, overall pass including an appropriate subject
• Scottish Highers: 112 points including Art & Design/Design & Technology
• Irish Leaving Certificate: 112 points including Art & Design/Design & Technology
• International Baccalaureate: 31 points including Art & Design/Design & Technology subject
• European Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma with 73% overall
• Foundation Diploma in Art and Design: Distinction = 112 UCAS points

International students must also meet the English language requirements, which include IELTS 6.0 with no element below 5.5.

Tuition Fees

The tuition fees for the Interior Design program are as follows:

• Full-time home: £9,535 per year (2025/26), £9,535 per year (2026/27)
• Full-time international: £17,650 per year (2025/26), £18,120 per year (2026/27)

Additional Costs

Students should also consider further costs, which may include books, stationery, printing, binding, and general subsistence on trips and visits.

Scholarships for International Students

High-achieving international students may be eligible for one of the university's scholarships.