Interior Design Minor

Learn how to transform spaces into stunning, functional environments. As an interior designer, you're an artist and visionary, creating an appealing atmosphere for homes, offices, or some of your favorite stores.

While architects design structures, your focus is on the functionality, aesthetics, and user experience inside. You’ll play with colors, furniture, and even the way light comes in to make sure everything looks good and works well together. With interior space as your canvas, you paint with walls, doors, windows, materials, furniture, colors, and decorations in real rooms.

Designed for Career Success

Learn a wide range of skills and techniques, from drawing floor plans and material selection, to working with vendors, to identifying sustainable solutions, and more.

Skills that this minor helps develop include:

• Budgeting
• Collaborative communication
• Critical and creative problem-solving skills
• Cultural competency
• Project management
• Sustainability awareness
• Technology proficiency

Majors That Complement the Minor

From architecture to graphic design to event coordination, our program is compatible with many career paths. Or follow in the footsteps of some of our alumni in the industry who now work for firms such as Gensler, HOK (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum), Perkins and Will, and Interior Architects. Employment of interior designers is projected to grow 4 percent from 2023 to 2033.

Some majors that work well with this program include:

• Art
• Communication Design
• Computer Animation and Game Development
• Construction Management
• Media Arts
• Recreation, Hospitality, and Parks Management