Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
Certified Level 6 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)
This Bachelor's Degree will allow you to get familiar with the trades of interior designer and creator of workplaces, commercial stands and displays that promote the company's corporate identity. This program will provide you with the skills required to work in a vast array of domains : architectural space (homes, industrial, commerical, and cultural settings), urban landscaping, architectural heritage, scenography, museography, temporary spaces (fairs, exhibitions, sets, etc.).
Possible status: You can apply to this Bachelor's Degree as an undergraduate student, as part of your continuous education or with a work-study program (apprenticeships or vocational training schemes).
Duration of the course: Three years.
Career Prospects: Whether as a freelancer, an employee or as a consultant for a company or an agency, graduates of this Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design will contribute to the creation of aesthetic spaces and volumes in our everyday lives. When working in a profressional organisation, they will share their expertise as a partner working for a design firm, an interior designer, a set designer assistant, a space layout consultant, or a workspace designer.
Further education: Master’s Degree of Interior Architect - Designer - certified as a level 7 training course by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP).
Programme of the Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
The first year of the Bachelor's Degree will allow you to discover the world of design. You will learn the basics of all forms of drawing, familiarize yourself with graphic digital, and 3D design softwares. Last but not least, this first year will help you become acquainted with the different approaches to creativity in spatial design.
The second and third years of the program are centered around vocational learning modules on the one hand and artistic and academic modules on the other. They include conceptual and semantic teachings in relation to spatial design.
These two years are made up of four semesters with a core module and a set of personal development optional courses for each semester to enhance your academic journey.
In second year, the course will allow you to pick a certain number of subjects to enhance your academic journey. For instance, you will be able to pick a subject from a different specialisation, such as graphic design, digital design, video game design or global sustainable design.
As an undergraduate student, you will have to complete an internship for a minimum of 20 weeks during the three years of your Bachelor's degree. A 4-week long internship is required at the end of the first year and 16 other weeks will have to be completed during the second and third years of the degree.
These internships are mandatory and will give you the opportunity to get some first-hand work experience. They will facilitate your integration into working life and make it much easier for you to join multidisciplinary teams and work for a design firm specialised in architecture, interior architechure or design, but also for you to work for design, communications and creative agencies.
ECTS | |
Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design / First Year | 60 |
ACADEMIC EDUCATION | 8 |
English | |
Art History | |
Methodology | |
TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION | 33 |
Sketch & Illustration | |
Plastic Arts | |
Perspective Drawing | |
Graphic Design | |
Architecture Studio | |
DTP | |
CGI Computer Graphics | |
Computer Graphics, Specialisation in Architecture | |
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION | 19 |
Digital and Graphic Design Workshop | |
Plastic Arts Workshop | |
Interior Design Workshop | |
Global Sustainable Design Workshop | |
Viva | |
Internship |
ECTS | |
Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design / Second Year | 60 |
Core Module First Semester Spatial Scales: the Human Being in all its Dimensions |
20 |
Architectural Design Studio | |
Visual Arts | |
General Knowledge | |
Design and Technology | |
Physics (Materials Techniques) | |
IT | |
Project Visualisation | |
Technical Drawing | |
Descriptive Geometry | |
English | |
Core Module Second Semester Spaces and Contexts |
20 |
Architectural Design Studio | |
Visual Arts | |
Semiotics | |
Design and Technology | |
Management | |
Physics (Materials Techniques) | |
IT | |
Project Visualisation | |
Technical Drawing | |
Descriptive geometry | |
English | |
Personal Development Optional Courses | |
Shadow and Light: Bringing Poetry to Space | 10 |
Plastic Arts | |
Visual Arts | |
General Knowledge | |
Project Visualisation | |
Materials and Tangible space | 10 |
Materials and Space Workshop | |
Plastic Arts | |
IT | |
Project Visualisation | |
Housing and New Lifestyles | 10 |
Workshop: Housing and Services | |
Workshop: Societal Issues and Perception of Space | |
History of Visualisation | |
Societal Analysis and Potential Solutions | |
3D and Architecture | 10 |
3D Modelling | |
3D Texturing | |
Rough Architectural Sketch | |
Still Image, Moving Image | 10 |
Print & Digital Creative Studio | |
Plastic Arts | |
Visual Culture | |
Typography | |
Print & Digital Design and Production Technologies | |
The Basic Components of Design | 10 |
Workshop | |
Plastic Arts | |
Project Visualisation | |
Print & Digital Design and Production Technologies | |
Japan-Oriented | 10 |
Osaka/Paris Workshop | |
Japanese Character Design | |
Japanese Manga and Anatomy Drawing | |
Japanese Culture |
ECTS | |
Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design / Third Year | 60 |
Core Module First Semester Living |
20 |
Architectural Design Studio | |
Visual Arts | |
General Knowledge | |
Design and Technology | |
Physics (Materials Techniques) | |
IT | |
Technical Drawing | |
Descriptive Geometry | |
English | |
Core Module Second Semester Public Infrastructure |
20 |
Architectural Design Studio | |
Visual Arts | |
Semiotics | |
Design and Technology | |
Management | |
Physics (Materials Techniques) | |
IT | |
BIM - Building Information Modeling | |
Technical Drawing | |
English | |
Personal Development Courses | |
Urban Planning | 10 |
Workshop | |
Plastic Arts | |
IT | |
Project Visualisation | |
Global Sustainable Design | 10 |
Culture: History of Eco-Responsability | |
Culture: Theory of Eco-Responsability | |
Visualisation Tools: Design Thinking | |
Visualisation Tools: UX Design | |
Societal Issues and Perception of Space |
TOTAL: 180 ECTS |
Apply for the Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
There is a specific admissions procedure to follow to apply to the Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design. The International Office is here to support you throughout the application process and remains at your disposal for any request you might have.
Certifications of the Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
Dual degree:
This program gives access to the title: TP - COORDINATEUR BIM DU BATIMENT (Building Information Modeling coordinator), registered at level 6, by the National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP) according to the ministerial order of July 19, 2019 published in the Official Journal of July 27, 2019.
Certifying body: Ministry of Labour, Employment and Integration.
Recognised as a Bachelor's Degree by the FEDE (Federation for EDucation in Europe) and IDELart-culture.
An INGO, the FEDE is holding the participatory status with the Council of Europe. It is a European network of higher education and vocational education institutions that shares a common project of high standards, quality and ambition. The FEDE network aims at improving the comprehensibility of the diplomas issued by the schools and fosters student mobility and student exchanges between schools.
Graduation is subjected to the completion and validation of 180 ECTS credits (60 credits per year).
Students enrolled in the Bachelor's Degree are eligible to apply to bilateral student exchange programs.
Certifications success rate
Class of 2022:
Testimonials: Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
To me, the positive aspects of this program are the excellent teaching staff as well as the fact that there aren't too many students in a class. This helped create a good atmosphere among students and it also meant that teachers had more time to dedicate to the students. It was also great for me to have the opportunity to do an internship at the end of the year. It is a key element to this program and it allows you to better understand how a company works. You get to go on construction sites, to familiarize yourself with the various trades that intervene on the site and to take part to real projects where you can put to practice what you've learnt in class.
I then focused on landscaping, because I've always been interested in plants, but also because Magali Fuchs, who's an Architect but also the lead Teacher of the Master's Degree in Interior Design at Autograf, empowered us and gave us the tools to work on landscaping projects. I'm currently enrolled in a Degree in Urban Vegetation Landscape Environmental Management. The work environment is astonishing, we get to work with large vegetation collections, we do many field trips and practical courses.

I was scared that I wouldn't fit in or that I wouldn't feel at ease but in the end, it went really well ! I talked a lot with the other students and the teachers also reassured me greatly. It really helped me be more confident.
I then applied to the Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design. All teachers are working professionnals and most of them are government-certified architects, so they really know what they're talking about and they support us tremendously. I really appreciated the way Pierre-Yves Graffe, my Project Visualisation teacher, pushed me to go even further and really encouraged me along the way. He made us realise that everyone evolves at their own pace and made sure that we would all be working as a team, that we would communicate, share experience and help each other out instead of seeing ourselves as competitors. As students, we bonded, we liked hanging out together, to check out an exhibition or simply to go out!
I am also grateful of the fact that the school remains very much humane and is capable of treating each student individually on a case by case basis. The academic team was always listening to our needs, ready to accomodate us and always considerate.
I'm very pleased with my education choices and in fact, now I'd like to go even beyond interior design. I'd like to focus on architecture and urban planning which is why I'm preparing to take the School of Architecture's entrance exam next year.
Autograf really opened doors to future opportunities for me.

After having worked in international trade for years and following an experience in visual merchandising where I had the opportunity to let my creativity express itself on top of some spatial design projects I carried out for some relatives, I felt the need to focus on my first loves. That is, architecture and design, both very tangible.
As such, the Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design offered by AUTOGRAF is particularly relevant, especially when followed within a work-study program. It helped me get a first-hand experience of this trade, essentially because an intership is required at the end of the degree. More importantly, it gave me the opportunity to keep working throughout my education.
This programme taught me the foundations that define space and that allow me to come up with a coherent solution to the customer's problem. I was also able to hone my technical knowledge in perspective drawing and technical visualisation.
My vocational retraining not only changed but also expanded my vision, thanks to the support of my architecture teacher, M. Pierre-Yves and my plastic arts teacher, Nathalie. Together, they made sure I would go all the way till the end. Today, I still want to pursue my training and to be equipped with all the tools I'll need for this trade.

WHAT MAKES AUTOGRAF UNIQUE:
International student exchange programme
Each year, all Interior Design students get to take part to an exchange programme, attending a series of workshops, co-organised with the Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, located in Canada.