Interior Design (Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree)

The interior design degree establishes you as an expert in creating human-centered environments and understanding the relationship between people and their physical surroundings.

Overview For Interior Design BFA

• Students design solutions to pressing issues, with projects often seeing the real-world application. Prominent projects include a Mobile Kitchen design, RIT Hope for Honduras, designing RIT City Art Space, a collaboration with the Rochester Public Library, and capstone research.

• Studio spaces allow students to interact with peers and faculty, fostering collaboration. And our professional-level material resource center contains specialty products managed and updated regularly by manufacturer vendors.

• Our faculty are practicing professionals immersed in the subject matters they instruct and strive to provide an atmosphere that parallels a professional workplace. 

• RIT’s 4+2 BFA/M.Arch. enables you to complete the BFA in interior design and enter the second year of RIT’s master of architecture degree with advanced standing. Learn more about this accelerated pathway 

• Students regularly showcase their creative and innovative projects to a global audience during NYCxDESIGN, with their involvement including the curation of exhibitions for the WantedDesign Manhattan event.

• Sustainable thinking and socially conscious design are two values embedded in the curriculum and guiding principles for program initiatives.

The interior design degree believes in creating contextually appropriate, architecture-centric design solutions grounded in evidence-based design research and human behavior theory.

Our goal is to inspire and prepare students to generate holistic, technically creative construction solutions that are not only resilient, adaptable, and sustainable, but purposeful and universally designed.

Careers And Experiential Learning

Typical Job Titles

• Commercial Designer    

• Customer Service Representative

• Design Consultant    

• Educational Designer

• Gallery Exhibitioner    

• Healthcare Designer

• Hotel and Hospitality Designer    

• Interior Design Associate

• Interior Designer    

• Interior Detailing Design Associate

• Junior Interior Designer    

• Occupancy Planner

• Office Designer    

• Project Manager

• Render Specialist    

• Retail Designer

• Set and Exhibit Designer    

• Showroom Design Consultan