Why Pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design
UTSA’s Interior Design degree is a four-year professional degree accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA). Our program prepares students to design spaces that enhance human experiences within the environment. Key themes guide our curriculum plan — fostering leadership in design and professional practice through the mastery of knowledge and skills, collaboration with allied disciplines such as architecture and construction science and management, and outreach through service-learning and sponsored programs.
The curriculum is studio-based and integrates the theories you learn in class with hands-on practice to foster your creativity and skill. Students and faculty exist and thrive within a collaborative workspace and studio culture specific to our shared creative work. After graduating, you will be able to design beautiful, functional spaces that respond to people’s needs and wants.
Admission Requirements
When you apply to UTSA, you select the major you'd like to study. The choice of major will not impact if you get admitted to the University (all students must meet UTSA's general admission requirements); however, some majors will require additional admission requirements to be able to declare the major your freshman year.
| Interior Design: Students interested in majoring in Architecture or Interior Design, must meet the additional admission requirements below. Freshman students who do not meet these requirements, but meet UTSA’s general admission requirements, will be admitted into Exploratory Studies. Transfer students not meeting these requirements, but meet UTSA’s general admission requirements will be admitted into Multidisciplinary Studies. | |
| Freshman Admission | Class Rank & Minimum Test Scores |
|---|---|
| Direct Admission | Top 10% with no minimum test scores or Top 25% with 1220 SAT or 25 ACT |
| College Review | Any Rank with 1170 SAT or 24 ACT |
| Transfer Admission | Transferable Credits & Minimum GPA (4.0 Scale) |
| College Review | < 30 hours with 3.0 GPA or >= 30 hours with 3.0 GPA and submit a portfolio |
Scholarships
Pro Tip: Even if you don't think you will qualify for financial aid, you should still submit the FAFSA! Information from the FAFSA could impact certain scholarships that are even merit-based.
UTSA Scholarship Hub
Through one general scholarship application, you can automatically be considered for dozens of scholarships at UTSA, including scholarships that are available for this major. In order to access all available scholarship applications on the UTSA Scholarship Hub, you must be an admitted student. If you are a student applying for admission, but have not yet been admitted, you may sign in and complete the Scholarship Hub’s General Application as long as you have authenticated your myUTSA ID and Passphrase. Once you are admitted to UTSA, please sign back in to the Scholarship Hub to see if there are any additional scholarship opportunities available for you to pursue.
UTSA Scholarship Hub Interior Design Scholarship Opportunities
Distinguished Scholarship
UTSA offers an automatic merit-based scholarship to incoming new freshman and transfer students who display exceptional scholastic achievement in high school by the priority deadline. Non-resident and international students awarded a Distinguished Scholarship for a minimum of $1,000 for the academic year will be granted a waiver for non-resident tuition if scholarship eligibility is maintained. This means out-of-state and international students could pay in-state tuition! For fall admitted freshmen, this scholarship is valued up to $20,000 for up to four years. For fall or spring admitted transfer students, this scholarship is valued up to $6,000 for up to two years. Renewal eligibility must be maintained and funding must be available.
Distinguished ScholarshipsUTSA Bold Promise
Although not a scholarship, UTSA is committed to cover tuition and mandatory fees 100% for eligible students who come from low and middle-income Texas families.
UTSA Bold PromiseCareers, Salary & Skills
UTSA prepares you for future careers that are in demand. See possible careers below. This data is pulled by a third-party tool called Emsi, which pulls data from sources like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, online job postings, other government databases and more to give you regional and national career outlook related to this academic program. On top of the resources your college will provide, the University Career Center offers several resources to help students identify and develop the global skills necessary to successfully pursue and achieve lifelong career goals.
Minors & Certificates
After selecting a major area of study and enrolling at UTSA, degree-seeking students can choose from a variety of minors and certificates to supplement their education. Although not required, minors and certificates can help students customize their UTSA experience based on their passions and unique career goals.
Explore All Minors & CertificatesThe Honors Experience
Realize your full potential at The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Honors College. Rooted in experiential learning, our classes and programs are hands-on, project-based, and customizable to fit your individual goals. Students in any majors can get invited to our Honors College. Turn your passions into marketable skills for the future!
Why Join Honors?
“My professors have really strong connections and have helped me learn about different firms and designers from all aspects of the design community. It’s really hands-on and they make sure you get involved."
Why UTSA?
The UTSA Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design (KCEID) is a top producer of engineers and environmental designers. Students work with industry leading faculty, cutting edge technologies and other students from our collaborative complimentary disciplines to solve grand challenges where humanity intersects with the physical world.
A signature experience for a KCEID student includes an internship, a research project, a study abroad program or a service learning project. By completing any one of these experiences, you will be applying knowledge you learn through classwork and developing marketable skills to chart your course towards a Bold Future.
KCEID is home to cutting-edge technologies and facilities. From our Large Scale Testing Lab to our two Makerspaces and newly opened 160,349 square foot Science and Engineering Building, KCEID students regularly engage with and operate machines and apparatus that are commonly leveraged professionally.
Student Success
UTSA is all about your success. Our experiential learning initiative takes what you learn in the classroom and helps you apply it to real life. As a student in the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design (KCEID), you will explore, engage and reflect on your experiences to launch your career in a global society. The KCEID Student Success Center is a one-stop resource to help you achieve your academic, personal and professional goals. Receive tutoring, find internships, connect with industry professionals for job opportunities, and enhance your professional development skills through the center’s comprehensive programming.