Interior Architecture and Design

Program Overview

Interior Architecture and Design MA

Overview

Experiment, explore, and engage with interior spaces with this Master's degree course. You'll have all the tools you need for a career in interior design.

Key Information

• Study mode and duration: 1 year full-time (September start), 17 months full-time (January start), 2 years part-time (September start)
• Start date: September 2025, January 2026

Course Information

Overview

If you're passionate about interiors and the built environment, and you want to explore making with analogue and digital methods, this Master’s could be for you.

This course focuses on the interior and developing an understanding of the built environment through sensory and affective engagement. You’ll study in an interdisciplinary environment with our other architecture courses as you learn to understand your strengths and disciplinary skills in the wider design environment.

Entry Requirements

• Eligibility: This course accepts UK, EU, and International students.
• UK qualifications: A minimum of a second-class honours degree in Interior Design, Architecture or a related subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.
• Non-UK qualifications: If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.
• English language requirements: English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) with no component score below 5.5.

Course Costs and Funding

• Tuition fees (September 2025 / January 2026 start):
  • UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man students: £9,400 (full-time), £3,130 (Year 1) and £6,270 (Year 2) (part-time)
  • EU students: £9,400 (full-time), £3,130 (Year 1) and £6,270 (Year 2) (part-time)
  • International students: £17,200 (full-time), £5,730 (Year 1) and £11,470 (Year 2) (part-time)
• Funding your studies: Explore how to fund your studies, including available scholarships and bursaries.

Modules

• Core modules:
  • Creative Theories: Thinking and Making (30 credits)
  • Research Methods (30 credits)
  • Interior Practices: Design Project (30 credits)
  • Thesis (60 credits)
• Optional modules:
  • Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences (30 credits)
  • Work-Based Learning: Opportunity (30 credits)

Facilities

• Architecture Studios: Our open-plan learning spaces encourage a studio culture of collaboration, creativity, and dialogue, preparing you for the ways of working you'll experience in your career.
• Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality (CCIXR): Create stunning works for film, TV, music, gaming, and immersive reality in the UK's first integrated facility of its kind.
• 3D Workshops: Our Workshops are ideal for model making, with high-grade kit for crafting wood, metal, plastics, polyurethane, concrete, and plaster works.

How You'll Spend Your Time

• Full-time study: You can expect to attend campus for at least 2 days per week, complete independent study for 3 days every week, and attend some meetings online.
• Part-time study: You can expect to attend campus for at least one day per week, complete independent study for 2 days every week, and attend some meetings online.

Teaching

• Teaching: Master's study is deeper and more specialised than an undergraduate degree. This means you'll focus on something that really matters to you and your career as you work closely with academics committed to the subject.
• Assessment: You'll be assessed through studio review, research projects, design projects, evidencing of the design process, and portfolio work.

Career Development

• Careers this Master's prepares you for: design practice, architectural practice, event management, exhibition design, arts practice, education
• Career planning: During your course, you'll have expert careers advice from our Careers and Employability Centre, your tutors, and our Student Placements and Employability Centre.

Supporting You

• Personal tutor: Your personal tutor helps you make the transition to independent study and gives you academic and personal support throughout your time at university.
• Student support advisor: In addition to the support you get from your personal tutor, you’ll also have access to a Faculty student support advisor.
• Academic skills tutors: You'll have help from a team of faculty academic skills tutors.
• Creative skills tutors: If you need support with software and equipment or you want to learn additional skills, our creative skills tutors provide free workshops, activities, and one-on-one tutorials.