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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

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Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture)

  • Bachelor

Combine business and interior architecture to produce interior spaces that enhance quality of life, or for careers in management, marketing or other business aspects of design organisations.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
409582, 096567M
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
ATAR
70

About this course

Highlights
  • Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.
  • Learn the expertise to produce interior spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants. You'll undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.
  • Business acumen and interior architecture skills can lead to diverse careers intersecting design with marketing, public relations, advertising, international business, economics, accounting, finance, financial planning, management and human resource management.
Highlights
  • Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.
  • Learn the expertise to produce interior spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants. You'll undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.
  • Business acumen and interior architecture skills can lead to diverse careers intersecting design with marketing, public relations, advertising, international business, economics, accounting, finance, financial planning, management and human resource management.

Entry requirements

Prerequisites

Satisfactory completion of Year 12 in an Australian school system or equivalent.

Study locations

Kelvin Grove

Gardens Point

What you will learn

Bachelor of Business

Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice and sets demanding standards to create your future career options.

Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically communicate professionally make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.

Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accounting advertising economics finance financial planning human resource management international business management marketing or public relations.

Business acumen and interior architecture skills can lead to diverse careers intersecting design with one of the business majors.

Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture)

This course is internationally recognised and provides you with the expertise to produce spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants. You'll undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.

Our strong connections to local industry provide you with real-world experience and insight into your career options through award-winning practitioners as tutors and promotion of your work in prominent public settings.

You will be supported by contemporary relevant teaching and a focus on new and emergent fields including small and large-scale design in real and virtual environments physical and digital experimentation body/space relations and design for health and social inclusion.

During the course you will conceptualise and develop your designs through expertise in spatial thinking and detailed resolution using models full-scale material constructs and digital animations.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

In both the commercial and property sectors business acumen and interior architecture skills can lead to diverse careers intersecting design with marketing public relations advertising international business economics management and human resource management.

Professional recognition

Graduates qualify for membership of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

The Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) does not confer qualifications in Architecture and the Queensland Architects Act (2002) restricts the use of the title ""Architect"" to professionals registered by the Board of Architects of Queensland.
Possible careers
  • Accountant
  • Advertising professional
  • Economist
  • Financial advisor/analyst
  • Human resource manager
  • Interior designer
  • International business specialist
  • Manager
  • Marketing officer/manager
  • Public relations officer/consultant

Course structure

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture). You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

You must complete:

  • business core units (96 credit points)
  • a business major (96 credit points) choosing from:
    • accounting
    • advertising
    • economics
    • finance
    • financial planning
    • human resource management
    • international business
    • management
    • marketing
    • public relations.

Accounting students will undertake 6 specified business core units and 10 accounting major core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Design component

You will complete:

  • four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
  • the interior architecture major (144 credit points) including:
    • four shared foundation units (48 credit points)
    • eight units (96 credit points) from the discipline.
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture). You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

You must complete:

  • business core units (96 credit points)
  • a business major (96 credit points) choosing from:
    • accounting
    • advertising
    • economics
    • finance
    • financial planning
    • human resource management
    • international business
    • management
    • marketing
    • public relations.

Accounting students will undertake 6 specified business core units and 10 accounting major core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Design component

You will complete:

  • four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
  • the interior architecture major (144 credit points) including:
    • four shared foundation units (48 credit points)
    • eight units (96 credit points) from the discipline.
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.