Academics

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Interior Design

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Interior Design is based on solving problems to improve the quality of people's physical environment.  The professional interior designer plans and creates interior spaces that enclose and serve human needs in relation to physical, functional, social, psychological, and aesthetic elements.  Students in Purdue's Interior Design program develop the analytical skills and gain the experience to plan commercial, institutional, retail, and residential interiors. The program is FIDER accredited and gives students a sound background in understanding the design process through fundamental design analysis, space planning, and programming.

Points of Pride

  • Interior Design is one of the majors housed in the new Visual and Performing Arts Building, a state-of-the-art facility built specifically for the visual and performing arts at Purdue. The building includes computer labs built specifically for the interior design program.
  • The interior design program was ranked nationally by Design Intelligence: the Almanac of Architecture and Design.
  • Purdue has a student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.

Careers

  • Commercial interior design (designer/project architect/job captain)
  • Interior design specialist
  • Showroom manager
  • CAD designer
Plan of Study

Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts


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