Interior Architecture and Venue Design with Foundation Year

Our BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Venue Design with Foundation year course offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.

Interested in a career where you can translate your design ideas into reality? This degree equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to design exciting venues ranging from bars, restaurants and entertainment complexes to hotels, shops and museums. 

• Build all the skills you need to excel in rewarding roles with architectural and interior design practices, major construction companies and local authorities
• Gain valuable workplace experience - our students have been as far afield as Los Angeles and Singapore on practice placements
• Undertake real-world projects based upon actual sites
• Showcase your work in exhibitions, locally and in our Student Showcase

You can also take the BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Venue Design without a foundation year.

• Shahadat Al-Thanawaya Al-Aama
• Students with an overall score of 60% would usually be eligible for the International Foundation Year
• UKVI IELTS 4.5 with a minimum of 4.0 in all components (CEFR B1) is also required

• If you are studying and completing any internationally recognised qualification such as A-levels; International Baccalaureate (IB) or the American Curricula from the International Schools within Jordan, then you can begin from the first year of a Bachelors degree. Please see individual course pages for specific entry requirements
• If you have completed a recognised international foundation programme with good grades
• Advanced entry to year 2 or 3 may be possible. You will need to supply detailed information including courses taken, grades achieved, syllabus and a grading guide

As a BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Venue Design graduate, you are ideally prepared for the wide variety of employment opportunities available to you, covering everything from generic architecture, or interior design, to venue project management and technical consultancy, depending upon where you wish to focus your career.

Some of the more popular choices are:

• Hospitality: hotels, bars and restaurants
• Leisure: cinemas, theatre, museums, spas and health centres, sports arenas and tourist attractions 
• Retail: shops, corporate branding and stores
• Corporate: offices and production facilities

In all of these areas, you could be involved in new build, refurbishment, change of use or conversions.

Graduates in the past have also secured employment in the areas of:

• Theatre and Stage Design
• Computer Game Environment Design
• Design of Executive Yacht Interiors

Your degree and professional qualification will also give you the opportunity to work overseas. Some past students have been employed in Santa Monica, USA and Japan, as well as many other countries.

Graduation from the course also gives you a sound basis for the opportunity of progression onto other professional qualifications, with some graduates having progressed on to RIBA courses and eventually qualifying as Chartered Architects, either whilst working (part-time) or (full-time) at other Educational Institutions.