BA (Hons) International Interior Design (Top Up) at Manchester Metropolitan University

Programme overview

Ready to take your design practice to a global stage? The BA (Hons) International Interior Design top-up is designed to help you think creatively, work innovatively and respond confidently to global trends in design. You will strengthen your critical and conceptual thinking while gaining insight into global and professional design practice, enabling you to define your own creative identity and professional direction.

What you will study

The International Interior Design top-up course facilitates you to undertake projects with an external professional and international focus, run in collaboration with a range of academic and professional partners. The projects will offer high-quality opportunities to acquire external professional and global perspectives as well as further develop collaborative skills and design practice knowledge within a range of contexts. Year 1 core: Unit X, ID4 Major Project, Global Design: Cultures, Contexts and Methods.

Career pathways

Interior Design graduates go on to work all over the world and have gained successful employment for design agencies and architectural practices such as: Johnson Naylor. Sheppard Robson.

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Application information

Entry requirements

For entry to the Top Up year, we require the submission of a portfolio of creative work and 240 credits earned through recent (up to 2 years) completion of a Foundation Degree, Advanced Diploma, HND (merit or above), the first two years of a Degree or equivalent. In cases where applicants are returning from industry and do not meet the standard admissions criteria, an assessment of their recent relevant professional experience will be made to establish their suitability for entry to the course. This will be undertaken on a case by case basis and supported by the Admissions Tutor. An online interview with portfolio is normally requested as part of the application process. IELTS: International students will be required to achieve an IELTS score of 6.0 with no component less than 5.5, or an equivalent accepted English language qualification. This is in line with the University’s entry requirements for students whose first language is not English. Portfolio required.

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.ucas.com

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