• Interior Design BFA

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  • Modern American interior design was invented in the early 1900s by Frank Alvah Parsons, and it has evolved at Parsons as a socially engaged practice. Today the research-based, design-intensive BFA Interior Design program prepares you to create comfortable, imaginative, healthful, and intelligently designed interiors. You learn to design interior environments that reflect an understanding of environmental sustainability, cultural differences, and the human need for comfort and well-being.

    Program Highlights

    • Interiors with Impact

      Go beyond aesthetics to consider how interior design connects to human and ecological conditions and influences complex relationships, from the public to the personal.

    • In-Demand Technologies

      Develop new design approaches using traditional fabrication methods as well as emerging technologies, such as bio-based materials and virtual and augmented reality.

    • Industry Connections

      Join a top-ranked program with access to globally influential interior design firms, showrooms, museums, and auction houses throughout New York City.

    • Creative Collaboration

      Share shops and studio spaces with students from the Architecture, Fine Arts, Product Design, and Lighting Design programs, fostering interdisciplinary work.

    • Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
    • Format Full-time, on campus
    • Credits 120
    • Duration 4 years
  • Curriculum

    Your BFA begins with Parsons’ first-year curriculum, which serves as the academic foundation for all undergraduate programs at Parsons. From your second year on, you dive into courses in your major field of study. Art and design history and theory courses develop your research, writing, and critical reasoning skills, and university electives broaden your perspectives. 

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  • Career Paths

    Graduates of the BFA Interior Design are prepared to begin careers or pursue further education in interior design, lighting design, sustainable design, set design, exhibition and event design, historic preservation, and consulting. 

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    What our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide

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Undergraduates

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