The Interior Designers Institute offers a wide range of courses that specialize in different areas of interior design, while giving you a broad-based foundation of the essential skills you will need to become an interior designer. The college offers a Certificate, Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Art degrees where you can specialize in any of the following areas: Commercial Design, Residential Interior Design, Model Home Design, Set Design, Transportation Design, Historical Preservation, Retail Store Design, Furniture, Textile and Wall-covering Design, Architectural Drafting, Interior Illustration, Space Planner and Lighting Consultant. The college offers a wide range of facilities for students including the latest equipment, student exhibition spaces, library and computer center.
Art Institutes are located in Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The Art Institute also offers courses online. Art Institutes offer an Interior Design course that includes topics such as space planning; color and environment; traffic patterns; furnishings; surfaces; and how we make living spaces usable, safe and viable. The course aims to qualify you for entry-level work as a drafts person, facilities planner, interior designer/decorator or space planner.
The Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design offers an extensive program to ensure that you are skilled in the following areas: manual drafting and computer-aided design (CAD); space planning interior materials and systems; environmental and human behavior; lighting design; construction documents and contracts; and business practices. Rocky Mountain also offers senior-year internships to test and hone your skills in a real-world environment. There is also a chance to specialize in Green Design to examine skills and practices needed for sustainability. The Interior Design course is also offered online.
The International Academy of Design and Technology offers an Associate of Science and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Interior design. The science degree concentrates on technical drawing, computer-aided design, digital media, the history of interior design, design practice and career development. The arts program concentrates on preparing students for upper-management opportunities in the interior design industry, concentrating on building a portfolio, history of interior design, draft plans and work with different materials.