Interior Design

Program Introduction

You notice how a room makes you feel before you can explain why: the light, the flow, the way a space either works or it doesn’t. The Bachelor of Interior Design at The KPU Wilson School of Design is built to tap into that feeling.

Learn by doing across six connected areas:

Studio design
Building technologies
Design communication
Site studies
Professional practice
Liberal electives

What it looks like to study how spaces feel and function:

That means mastering construction documentation, building codes, and accessibility standards. It means space planning, materials, and drafting, too. Then you’ll test your skills by logging hours in a design firm before you graduate. In your third year, a mandatory field school takes your learning abroad. By year four, your degree meets the education requirement to sit the NCIDQ exam, the credential that opens the door to professional practice.

Want to dig deeper into a topic you care about? Our Honours option lets you spend your final year on an independent design project, built around your own interests. Importantly, our program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. It’s one of a select few in Canada to hold that distinction.

Watch one of our grads launch her new interior design product on TV:

Why Study Interior Design?

Here’s what makes our program unique:

With small cohorts, you get real one-on-one time with faculty who know your work well.
Our Advisory Committee is composed of industry leaders from all corners of interior design. They make sure we adapt quickly to changes in the industry.
Because our degree carries professional degree status, you won’t need extra steps to qualify as a professional interior designer.
Our building was purpose-built for collaboration. You’ll get to study interior space while spending time inside a great example of it.
Our program has held CIDA accreditation since 2000 (the first in BC to earn it) and was recently awarded a six-year reaccreditation. That’s one of the strongest confirmations a design program can earn.
Your degree opens doors across the field: hospitality and retail design, set design for theatre and TV, corporate offices, residential projects, and more.
Local firms know our name — most of our recent graduates found work in the field within a month of finishing their degree.
100% of our 2021 and 2023 graduates surveyed were employed after finishing their degree, with all of them working in interior design or a closely-related field.

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Who Studies Interior Design?

You’re the one your friends call before they buy furniture, move apartments, or repaint a room. Interior design draws people like you from all kinds of backgrounds: fresh out of high school, transferring from another program, or already established in a career and ready for something new. Maybe you’ve explored your creativity through photography, drawing, or another craft. Either way, you don’t need a professional design background walking in.

What you’ll build here is meaningful technical fluency: construction drawings, building systems, and designing spaces that meet code and work for the people using them. If you’re comfortable pairing creative thinking with precise, detailed work, you’ll fit right in.

An Interior Design grad on the moment she really understood the concept of accessibility:

Admission Requirements

Here’s what you’ll need to do in order to apply to the Wilson School of Design:

Meet our English Proficiency Requirement.
Submit an Entrance Package.
Complete an Interview.

Click the links below to explore detailed requirements about this program.

HOW TO APPLY ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Interior Design Grad Profile

No two days look the same for Wilson School grad Jaeda Drexhage. One day she’s reviewing drawings, the next she’s on-site, and the next she’s deep in materials and concept work. That variety is exactly what Jaeda loves about the job. After completing her Interior Design degree at the Wilson School of Design, Jaeda got a job as an interior designer at Soho House — a hospitality brand with hotels and clubs around the world. She credits the program’s studio structure for helping her get there. Jaeda says moving through residential, commercial, and hospitality design over four years let her discover the kind of work she wanted to do.

“I love my job because we get to create super exciting spaces that people get to feel and experience on a variety of levels. The program at Wilson School of Design definitely prepared me for my career.”